Word: assistive
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...concern around Intel's Portland, Ore., campus, where most of the 14,500 employees are preoccupied with building smaller and faster computer chips. But Dishman, 35, a vibrant sociologist with tight tufts of light brown hair, heads Intel's Proactive Health Lab. His mission is to use technology to assist people with the "activities of daily living"--getting dressed, making meals and so forth--so that we can all age with dignity and stay home with loved ones as long as possible...
...Obviously, they’re playing great defense right now,” said junior captain Jason Norman. “We need to execute our offense because right now we have a horrible [194-to-371] assist-to-turnover ratio...
...make sure the two parts are cooperating. Right now, the only overseer of both parts is University President Lawrence H. Summers. The University needs to appoint someone else to supervise mental healthcare on campus, replete with a central office available to direct students to the proper organization and assist in coordination. This should not be difficult to do; the University already created a similar central office last spring—the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. There are many reasons students avoid seeking treatment, such as the stigma attached to it and the difficulty in recognizing mental problems...
Though it was her only tally on the evening—Gunn denied each of her other nine shots—she would add an assist on freshman Jenn Sifers’ goal to give Harvard a 4-1 lead at 10:30 in the third period and was lurking somewhere on the ice when the Crimson banged home four of its five scores, giving her plenty to rib Gunn about...
Harvard backliners either scored or had the primary assist on five scoring plays—the direct result of a critical adjustment by head coach Mark Mazzoleni to adopt a 2-3 forecheck, in which defensemen pinched when they saw loose pucks along the wall. More often than not, the Crimson won the one-on-one battles and put shots...