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trahy ij

  • n  sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food

  • And as the system of nonprofit housing counselors has been flooded, many agencies have been forced to triage homeowners: less urgent cases go to the back of the line.
  • Fall-TV triage continues: I didn't have time to do a full review yesterday of NBC's painful nurse drama Mercy, and though I could have whipped up a quick pan for critical-jollies .
  • Lebanon is second on the neighborhood triage list, but only because no one has been killed in the last 24 hours, at least at this writing.
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  • Russell Simmons in New York Daily News
    Tiger Woods is working on sending a mobile hospital with 50 EMTs to go set up a triage,Simmons said Wednesday night.
  • John Kerry in PR Newswire (press release)
    This is triage when the SBA budget needs major overhaul. The cuts have been so deep for so long that many small businesses are falling through the cracks,said Kerry, chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. "Yet...
  • Norman Ornstein in Reuters
    Given the economic catastrophe that we face, to go right into the teeth of that hurricane and plan for some ambitious expansion of government that goes beyond the triage element is bold to say the least,said Norman Ornstein, a political...

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