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...that the work is unchallenging compared to most full practices face it," she says, "students are boring. They get mono, they get colds. Once in a great while they get hepatitis. They're mostly in pretty good health, and if you want to hone your professional skills and keep abreast of the profession, you just won't want to work there Harvard has somewhat less trouble than most in attracting good physicians in recent years, McKenna adds because of the increasingly varied community it serves...
...more consumer-oriented than the Journal's, extensive coverage of television, briefer reports on the arts, law, religion, science and other "soft news," plus lots of sports. Gannett promises to provide a play-by-play of each run scored in every major league baseball game. To keep sojourners abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each of the 50 states, and a similar state-by-state summary of college, school and amateur sports. The clean makeup features sharply reproduced color photos, charts and a vivid, detailed national weather...
Perhaps the most popular form of industrial spying happens to be totally legal. Companies now make extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act to keep abreast of one another. Although the law was created in 1966 to help the press get access to public records, it is mainly used by corporations to find out what the competition and the Government are doing. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, reports that up to 85% of the requests for information come from other businesses. In one case, a report supplied by the agency under the act revealed details...
...good soldier and defended Nixon publicly. "I was sort of a two-gun guy, and if anybody would toss anything in the air, I'd take a shot at it," he recalls. Privately, however, Dole, who has a jolly irreverence for higher authority, kept a few trusted reporters abreast of whatever he learned about the White House involvement in Watergate. When Nixon's taping system was revealed, Dole was ready with a quip: "Thank goodness, whenever I was in the Oval Office, I only nodded...
...this right is every bit as inalienable as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Harold Sheppard, associate director of the National Council on the Aging, has a one-word description of benefits paid now and all increases that may be necessary to keep those payments abreast of inflation. The word is: sacred. And all politicians know that the aged are far more likely to vote than the young...