Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some hospitals in the past year. In turn, manufacturers have difficulty meeting their contracts and are scrambling to increase output. Says John Strong, president of Health Care Materials Corp.: "Hospitals are within two to three days of not being able to do certain procedures." Industry sources say an element of hysteria has led some hospital employees who have no direct patient contact, like maintenance workers, to begin wearing gloves on the job. Other health-care workers are "double gloving" and in some cases wearing three layers of latex...
...backpedaling on this thorny topic. In a report to Congress on arms-control negotiations last March, the President cited compliance with deals in the past as an "essential prerequisite" for future agreements. Yet in a similar report this month, that prerequisite had been watered down to become "an essential element of my arms-control policy." Although such an amendment would not require that the treaty be renegotiated, it would make it difficult for Reagan to put the pact into effect: the Administration went on record a week before the summit with a list of allegations about how Moscow has violated...
After the renovation, the YMCA "will not manage the housing element in the package" because it is not equipped to deal with the special problems of the lodgers...
There is some truth to that claim. But it is not the whole truth, and it may not turn out to be the most important truth. The story of the INF treaty is also one of Soviet persistence, Soviet ingenuity and, yes, Soviet success. That is a critical element of any arms-control agreement: both sides must feel they succeeded. The Soviet Union set out to keep American missiles as far from its territory as possible. And this week it will sign an agreement doing just that...
...problem, then, is not so much that Harvard relies on graduate students to teach, but rather that it does so in an uncoordinated way. Heavy use of TFs--unlike the rest of the curriculum--is not a carefully-planned, thoroughly-discussed element of the University's educational strategy. Instead, it is an attempt to improvise in response to immediate needs. The trouble is, this improvisation has become a permanent part of Harvard University's repertoire...