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...cope, some institutions have had to import nurses from the Philippines, the United Kingdom and Canada. By next year, 20% of the 5,600 nurses in New York's municipal hospitals will be Filipino. And still the city will be short 1,000 nurses. Many more use temporary nursing employment agencies that have proliferated, particularly in California, where the nurse shortage is acute. Some Southern California hospitals rely on such agencies for as much as 60% of their staff, but the solution is hardly ideal. Agency fees can cost a hospital millions of dollars each year. Staff morale suffers...
Richard Harris overacts as James Parker, Jane's adventure-monger father. But he really can't be blamed for that: Most of his interactions are with Jane, so Harris must cope with the unenviable task of bouncing his lines off Bo, which is like bouncing a casaba melon off cement. Nevertheless, he is successful at times, and provides the film's few entertaining moments. It is hard to say if Tarzan would have been a good movie even with a better actress playing Jane, somebody with style and grace. Julie Christie for instance, or (a few years ago) Katherine Hepburn...
...major story can be enough to test the resourcefulness of any TIME bureau. But in the past four weeks TIME'S London bureau has had to cope with the formidable challenge of covering two simultaneous headline developments: the accelerating preparations for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and the sudden outbreak of rioting in England's industrial cities. The task required an ability to change mood, location and even clothes at a moment's notice. Within hours, Correspondent James Shepherd shifted from tracking rioters in London neighborhoods to chatting amiably with Prince Charles...
...women's due and getting rid of it is almost sacrilegious." A more basic reason may be that doctors have been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with bed rest and aspirin, or they have been labeled neurotics and offered tranquilizers. Says Psychiatrist-Endocrinologist Ronald Norris of Boston's Tufts University School of Medicine: "When there's no obvious injury, physicians tend not to be sympathetic." Neither is the public. According...
There was a time when Grandmother dispensed advice for getting rid of wrinkles. But in an era of increasing specialization, such simple, homespun arts have become the domain of a select few-to say nothing of newer skills needed to cope with daily life. What, for example, is the difference between a Treasury bond and a Treasury certificate, or a condominium and a cooperative apartment? Whether the subject is glamour or gold, condos or coops, Network for Learning provides the answers, enlisting experts to explain esoterica in layman's language. Says Jeffrey Hollender, 26, executive director of Network...