Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointed day, wind conditions were ideal: only a breeze from the southwest, which would blow the gas away from Denver in case of a disaster. At 6:37 a.m., the first plane began rolling down the runway, escorted by a Jeep outfitted with a machine gun. Halfway down the strip, the C-141 ground to a breathtaking halt; mechanics rushed out, found the trouble-a faulty pressure gauge-and replaced it. By that time, the second and only other plane of the day had disappeared into the red-streaked...
...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 because temporary nurses set their own schedules and are better paid than full-time members of the hospital staff. More disturbing, agency nurses are not familiar with a hospital's specific procedures, which can lead...
Tinkerbell's conservative sales approach, though, is now under increasing pressure from tough new competitors. Major toy manufacturers, including Mattel, Remco, Ideal, Hasbro and Mego, have introduced broad lines of make-believe makeup. Toy and Hobby World magazine lists Remco's Crayon Children's Play Cosmetics as currently the top-selling brand. Remco also tempts the tots with Blue Ice Eye Shadow and Sweetheart Pink Lip stick. Hasbro offers a Fresh 'n Fancy kit that allows the girls to mix their own makeup colors. The prices of these play cosmetics range from $1 for a small...
...balance. It is very hard, of course, to please the Europeans, and especially the Germans. President Reagan and his people bother Europe whenever they sound at all belligerent. A German Foreign Ministry man was asked what on earth would be Schmidt's definition of the ideal U.S. President. After the briefest pause, he said: "Helmut Schmidt...
...anything good about the Confederacy, he said, it was an old ethos, which, though mired in the horrors of the mid nineteenth-century South, had at least bothered to aspire to something while in the North industrialization ran amok. After the Civil War, the North took up the ideal of the gentleman planter for a while, and the legend of Lee--a fundamentally Northern myth--was born in cities full of coal and smoke. But the North was never serious about it. They took it up for fun. They took it up as a style. They took...