Word: mineola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Jackson, Brown was born to aching poverty and prejudice; he grew up in a one-room shack in tiny Mineola, Texas, east of Dallas. He recalls shining white men's shoes, then fishing the quarter tips from a spittoon. After high school, he fled to San Francisco, worked his way through college and law school and into local politics. Elected to the state assembly in 1964, he became known as a radical who applauded the Watts riots and demanded more state spending for the poor. But he also developed a reputation for mastery of legislative rules and budget arcana...
...work itself. Today's trainees spend far more time dealing with administrative detail, owing in part to the omnipresent fear of malpractice suits. "You spend a lot of time doing paperwork because of the so-called medical-legal environment," says Lora Wiggins, an intern at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, Long Island. "You're exhausted, and you are dealing with two kinds of criteria for how you act." To add to the burdens, today's hospital patients tend, as a group, to be more sick than ever before. Technology has enabled extremely ill patients to linger on the brink...
...year old financier has served as a trustee of Jericho Public School, the Greenvale School, and the Foxcrott School. His efforts with hospitals include serving as president of the boards of Nassau Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., and of the Presbyterian Hospital...