Word: joining
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...before Vaughn took off, he telephoned Dr. Donald Olsen of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said...
When Tom Callahan was asked to join TIME as a sportswriter almost four years ago, he hesitated. He was reluctant to give up the freedom he had enjoyed for ten years as a newspaper columnist, first at the Cincinnati Enquirer and later at the Washington Star. But Managing Editor Ray Cave, a former sports journalist, was not looking for just a reporter. "He told me he wanted the section to read like a column," Callahan recalls. "I was to write in my own voice." Since then, Callahan has, in his inimitable fashion, described Super Bowls and World Series, Masters tournaments...
...urges the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to join its counterparts at the Law School and the Divinity School (where the faculties have already added the words sexual orientation to the non-discriminatory clauses) and adopt a clear policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in admissions, hiring, and housing. At this point, it is important to add that the cities of Boston and Cambridge already have a comprehensive human rights ordinance which prohibits discrimination in the areas of community services, employment, and housing on the basis of a number of criteria--among them, sexual orientation...
...must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...
...attempt to convince both MIT Harvard to join in the effort to create a satisfactory linkage proposal. City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci asked the city to create a blue ribbon panel, composed of all nine city councilors and subject to open meeting laws to discuss Cambridge housing issues...