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Haunting Presence. As a result, the three networks and two wire services gave up competitive vote counting and formed NES as a nonprofit cooperative under the direction of Associated Press Newsman J. Richard Eimers. By the fall of 1964 Eimers had organized a network of thousands of poll "reporters," plus an election-night headquarters staff of hundreds of students and technicians. Today he still directs the system, haunting each election-night performance with his demanding presence...
Although the number of graduates joining nonprofit firms or working for the government is slowly increasing, they continue to represetnt a small fraction of Business School graduates, Hodgins said...
...seen from the Statue of Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called Ruckus Manhattan. The space for it was procured by a nonprofit organization, Creative Time Inc., which coordinated the six-month creation, and was donated by the Orient Overseas Association, a shipping company. The buildings, cars, trains, boats and people-from life-size effigies to tiny, comic-strip figures painted on vinyl -were made by the Ruckus Works, a team...
...help entice qualified physicians into the boondocks, a group that included doctors from the University of Utah's College of Medicine independently established a nonprofit corporation called the Health Systems Research Institute (H.S.R.I.). The idea has been successful from the start. H.S.R.I. has already supplied badly needed medical help to sparsely populated areas of five Western states, where it now operates eleven clinics and three hospitals. As one doctor recruited by the institute says, "It gives me an opportunity to practice medicine as it was meant to be practiced without all the garbage of fighting with insurance companies...
...Half a year after they started, Friedman and Hutchisson had their answer. Tests on both animal and human blood indicated that the new machine was not only safe but efficient at cleansing the blood. After only four weeks of instruction, the plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend's backyard patio...