Word: jims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rescuers, despite being trained to cope with disaster, may be particularly troubled by the grim sights and smells. "I don't care how professional your firemen and policemen are," says Jim Worlund, an Oakland emergency planner, referring to an amputation performed on a victim on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, "that's hard to live with." Dr. Edward McCarroll of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington last year conducted a survey of 150 military and civilian personnel who participated in rescue efforts at military disasters. He found that many were overwhelmed when they discovered a body that resembled...
...read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy to sell. It is the Mercedes of computers," said Jim Johnston, a salesman at Atlanta's PC Mart...
...meat-cleaver approach to budget cutting, the Gramm- Rudman mechanism has itself become a target. Senator Ernest Hollings, one of the authors of the legislation, announced last week that he was ready for a "divorce" from the act. During Senate hearings on reforming the budget process, Budget Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee said, "Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which is a useful fiction to give...
...hoping to turn their season aroundafter earlier losses to Dartmouth, Brown and Yale,were unable to place a runner in the top 20. Yalejunior Jim Gibson won the men's race with anoutstanding time of 24:43 on one of the toughestfive-mile courses on the East Coast...
...McMahon 6 3 0-0 0-0 0 18 Silas Myers 5 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Andy Bell 6 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Kevin Collins 6 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Rick McIntire 6 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Jim Reidy...