Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some doctors at the hospital privately admit that cost-cutting efforts, nursing-staff shortages and overworked, overtired interns may be compromising care at their institution. Hospitals around the U.S. may be "trimming their staffs too far down," says Dr. Dennis O'Leary, president of the Chicago-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. O'Leary suggests that the ongoing war between the "money people and the clinical people" at hospitals struggling to contain costs may be taking a toll on quality...
...both sides renewed the old battle, Lehman's successor, James Webb, pointed out that the Midway will be 50 years old by the time it can be replaced. But the highest Navy officer, Admiral William Crowe, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired a shot across the fleet's bow by arguing that "painful choices have to be made." The admiral said he would give higher priority to such matters as "modern munitions, antisubmarine warfare and the SSN ((attack submarine)) program." That may have sounded like mutiny to the Navy, but some budgeteers on Capitol Hill were applauding...
Director Timothy Benston's first success was in his transformation of the Mather House Dining Hall, which usually looks like an Alpine hunting lodge, into a sleek jukebox joint. There the play's nine characters--played by an all Black cast--hang out and discuss their woes as Black actors trying to make it big in show biz. By the play's end, the audience, along with the cast, is supposed to "be colored & love...
...done with the porous white elephant. Reagan has appointed a commission headed by Melvin Laird, another former Defense Secretary, to suggest ways out of both the new embassy dilemma and the penetration of the current chancery. The high-powered panel will include former CIA Director Richard Helms and former Joint Chiefs Chairman General John Vessey. Four other groups, including the Foreign Intelligence Board, are investigating aspects of the scandal. Former CIA Official Bobby Inman last week offered a novel solution for the bugged building: Americans should "very carefully" construct three secure floors...
...most accounts, the project has been jinxed from the time the U.S. and the Soviet Union began discussing a joint agreement to construct new embassies 24 years ago. Throughout the decades of haggling over the plan, the U.S. consistently got the short end of the deal. Says Lawrence Eagleburger, an assistant to the Secretary of State under Richard Nixon: "Every Administration since Johnson got snookered on this...