Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to go into nursing these days when there are so many better opportunities for women?" asks Adriene Barmann, 27, a cancer nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. For most registered nurses, the average beginning salary is $21,000, yet 30-year veterans regularly earn less than $30,000. Duties range from starting intravenous lines and bathing patients to such menial tasks as fixing TVs and taking out the garbage. Hospitals routinely require 50- and 60-hour workweeks. Little wonder, then, that enrollment in nursing schools has plummeted 20%, to less than 200,000 student nurses, since...
...wildest and most dramatic ride of Olympic ski racing on Mount Allan was Pirmin Zurbriggen's blazing downhill victory on the first day of competition, but that was then. For the next two weeks the Swiss superskier, a likely bet to win a hatful of medals, was most noticeable as he smiled bashfully at cameras and gave gentlemanly praise to racers who were beating him. The expectations game was at least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then...
Wind-lashed Mount Allan itself upstaged the world's best skiers during the men's super-G. Flat light blurred visibility, and the man-made snow had been licked to unpredictable slickness by overnight freezing. Five of the first 15 racers fell or wobbled off course. Zurbriggen skied so cautiously that he was out of contention. The only racer who looked comfortable was France's Franck Piccard, who had never won a World Cup race although he had looked good earlier in the Games, taking a bronze in the downhill. His expression as the other racers failed seemed...
...aggressive salesmen and managers, breaking down the traditional Japanese reserve. He started with six students in a small wooden shack on Tokyo Bay, but the school expanded rapidly and became an established part of Japan's corporate scene. Now located in Fujinomiya, a small city at the foot of Mount Fuji, the school boasts 100,000 graduates, most of whom were sent there by companies like Honda and Hitachi to be toughened up for the no-holds-barred competition of the Japanese marketplace and to be taught, as Instructor Naoyoshi Fujimori explains, "to work in harmony with their colleagues...
...Carl Craig got a "high five" from his son after passing the ten-commandments test and shedding the first ribbon. After passing the "sales crow" test at Janss mall, the elder Craig was bubbling with pride: "When you turn that ribbon in, you feel like you have just climbed Mount Fuji...