Word: labors
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Residents’ long hours stem from a worthy goal: a better understanding of the full cycle of emergency care, from a patient’s admission to her discharge. But hospitals take advantage of residents’ long hours as sources of cheap labor. The results, unfortunately, are dangerous, with an increased risk of accidental needlestick injuries, for example, at the end of a long shift. The HMS researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Christopher P. Landrigan, also cite an earlier study that found that “human performance” after staying awake...
...employers, internships provide a pool of raw but talented labor from which they can cherry-pick the best and brightest. Among college interns, 90% report job offers from their employers, says CareerExposure.com. Employers rank students' internships and job experiences above grade-point averages in hiring - not surprising in an era when companies from Lockheed Martin to NASA have to engage etiquette trainers to teach new hires just how to shake hands...
...date with everything else) or audition. It took me four tries before I found my present doctor, a brilliant, European-trained woman who has never once promoted a C-section, and doesn't laugh at me when I ask questions like, "Will I need to wear a veil during labor?" (The answer is no, by the way, but that's because men, including one's husband, are banned from delivery rooms...
...ideological battle against Islamo-fascism that he's practically owned the airwaves. Which is just what Karl Rove wanted. Bush's address at the United Nations General Assembly today may have been a long-scheduled, annual diplomatic event. But it was also a key piece in an elaborate Labor Day political strategy devised by the man whose job it is to keep Republicans in control of Congress in November and thereby salvage the President's legacy. In the past two and half weeks Bush has given a major address on detainee policy, a series of speeches surrounding the five-year...
...kitchen goods, Supor Cookware, by the French firm SEB. One critic of such takeovers is the former head of China's National Statistics Administration, Li Deshui, who told a China Daily reporter: "If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can act only as labor in the global supply chain...