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...students, beware. Most firms recruiting at Harvard require long hours and extensive travel for the financial reward they offer. In the eyes of the firm, first-year para-consultants "perform mechanistic repetitive tasks, more cost effectively," according to the HBS management consulting handbook...
...Rubsamen, a California physician and lawyer whose Professional Liability Newsletter instructs doctors on how to avoid and defend malpractice suits. "Nursing involves all kinds of subtle perceptions. If you say, 'I'm coughing. I feel anxious' to a registered nurse, that means pulmonary embolism. Try that on a para-something-or-other who's been trained for six months." Nevertheless, patient-focused care is becoming the staffing pattern of choice throughout the country. Facing reduced reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and managed-care plans, hospitals must cut labor costs to survive. And nurses don't come cheap...
...Carras, founding executive director of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders; "Words as Hard as Cannonballs: Speechmaking and Political Communication in 'The Information Age,'" led by Martha Eddison, a former speechwriter for Mario Cuomo; "Development, the United Nations and the 21st Century: The Need for a New Development Para-digm," led by former U.S. ambassador and U.N. representative Anne Forrester...
...Crisis magazine article, Counter suggested that certain "para-white ethnic groups," notably "Euro-American individuals and special interests with powerful influence in the media" were participants in an "ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-Americans." The article, though well-encoded, seemed to echo traditional anti-Semitic refrains about alleged Jewish media conspiracies...
After Wheaton and a brief stint in a small church, Graham joined Youth for Christ International, a "para-church" group of vigorous young evangelists who would travel the country, and soon the world, working with churches to stage revival meetings to ever larger crowds. In the immediate postwar years, there seemed to be a hunger for the virile, vibrant call to faith that Graham and his friends represented. On and on they came, until as many as a million kids a week were attending such revival meetings around the country. The YFC rallies included blaring bands, quiz shows, horse acts...