Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nurse must be radically redefined. For too long the medical community has depended on nurses as a source of cheap but versatile labor. "We need to define the professional nature of nurses more precisely and assign other people to positions where a nurse's professional and scientific background is not essential," says Dr. David Skinner, president of New York Hospital. It does not take a nursing degree, for example, to deliver a pill to a patient. Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital sometimes uses medication technicians, not R.N.s, to dispense drugs to patients after nurses have verified the dose. Says Connie...
...They had brought the weapons and explosives aboard the plane in their musical instruments," Tass reported. It gave no details of the Ovechkins' background and did not say how they managed to elude airport security...
...fellow that has had to sit in the background for three years because of [former Harvard goalies Dickie] McEvoy and [Grant] Blair, some pretty good goaltenders," Cleary said, "Look at the figures, and I think John has earned his stripes this year. You don't get to be 18-4 without a good goaltender. He's a battler; he's a fighter...
World employs two common themes of Restoration comedies: courtly manners and the difficulties of love. There is a great deal of witty dialogue and a plot involving a series of deceptions and betrayals that eventually lead to a union of two lovers. Unfortunately, the two pages of background information included in the program do little to aid the audience's constant struggle to figure out who is doing what to whom...
...Because of my weak basketball background, I have a lot to learn about the sport, and I do that during the summer," Delaney Smith notes...