For the minority of obese people who are surgical candidates, the operation can turn their lives around.

The big operations here are also turning to the influx of Mexican immigrants as cheap labor.

It would also leave the President with sole political responsibility if the operation turns sour.

The last thing a doctor wants is to pick up the frantic comments in the operating room when a routine operation turns into a nightmare.

The operation turned into a bloodbath when tribesmen opened fire.

Either an operation is self-supporting and turning a profit from the beginning, or it's in trouble.

Once again what he thought would be an easy operation had turned into a major headache.

A three-hour operation last September turned to six hours, when she developed life-threatening complications.

But I hear that the operation could turn me into a vegetable.

Indonesian operations turned a profit in its first year.