Word: health
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...James Cramer, a sociologist at the Georgetown University Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure. Cramer was hired for a one-year teaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and promised that he would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner agreed with Cramer...
Harvard Police and the Environmental Health and Safety Unit of University Health Services are investigating the accident...
...fitting that the former railroad administrator dies before the former whore. He is too preoccupied with sacrificing a good, full life for health and a little more time to actually be able to outlast Madame Rosa-she has lived the good, full life too long to be able to continue at the same pace forever...
Time is not in his favor. As he grows and learns to love and depend on Madame Rosa, she grows older too. And her age does more than increase her love, it also saps her strength and undermines her health. Her weakness makes her still more dependent on Momo, which further heightens his love for her. At the same time it forces him to realize that someday soon she will die and there will be no one left who needs him or whom he will want to need, in turn...
John W. Gardner, the founding chairman of Common Cause and formerly Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, sees danger in certain proposals that have come forth lately from various tax reformers to eliminate or reduce the charitable contributions that Americans can deduct from taxable income. He stated his case recently at a United Way conference in a speech on which this essay is based...