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Part 5: New Directions: A Patient Outcomes Orientation
Pages 59-62

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... PAN V New Directions: Patient Outcomes Crien1~1ion
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... Although the presence of German troops on the slope on which the monastery was located was certain, it seemed they had refrained from entering the monastery or its immediate vicinity. However, its overarching presence became so much a symbol of the inability of the allied forces to move forward that it was decided to obliterate the abbey with intense air bombardment.
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... Yet two such diverse persons as John Courtney Murray, the distinguished Jesuit who was chiefly responsible for the Vatican II Decree On Religious Liberty, and Oliver Wendel Holmes held that American democracy is predicated upon our being a virtuous people. Laws and regulatory activity are important, but ultimately our surviving as a people will depend on how virtuous we are.
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