Word: labs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employee at a lab in Boston City Hospital who received his job after consultation with Funkenstein said, "He's the leading man in knowing about different medical schools, the qualifications of medical students, their psychological qualities, everything...
...June graduate of the College who works in the same lab said "there's a certain technique to applying to medical school that most people don't know about. It's a big game and you've got to squeeze all your qualifications into the application, and Funkenstein knows exactly how to do it." He too got work through Funkenstein, after failure to gain acceptance to med school this spring...
...initial Skylab team had to cope with the loss of part of the ship's shielding and with a major failure in its electrical system.* By contrast, the second team should find the lab in good working order. As the countdown began last week, the only potentially serious problem reported by mission controllers was a malfunction in an attitude-control gyroscope, the second to break down so far (seven of Skylab's complement of nine gyros in the triply-redundant system are still working). The astronauts will carry up a replacement gyro. Already on board is a twin...
When Dr. Walter R. Tkach, Nixon's personal physician since 1969, concluded that his patient was suffering from viral pneumonia, he knew that it might take several days for lab tests to determine whether the infecting agent was Mycoplasma or a true virus. He decided to administer an antibiotic immediately on the theory that it might help. Though Tkach declined to identify the medicine, it was probably erythromycin or one of the tetracyclines, which are frequently prescribed for Mycoplasma pneumonia. From X rays, he concluded that only the lower lobe of Nixon's right lung was inflamed...
These success stories are still distinctly in the minority. The more usual plight of black "start-up" businesses is exemplified by the fate of Robert Musgrove of Chicago. Four years ago, he got an SBA loan to open the city's only photographic lab owned by a black. Today he is trapped between an inadequate cash flow and the desire to expand. He is working mostly to pay off the SBA. Beset by similar problems, as well as by undercapitalization and bad management, many other blacks simply close their doors. A recent survey in Chicago showed that...