Word: philadelphia
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...worker. "It's an incentive program that has done incredibly well," says Program Manager Julia Steinman. The credit is especially helpful to the small employer. "It means you don't have to take a bath if the kid doesn't work out," says Terrence Brown, whose Philadelphia-based architecture and planning firm hired four teen-age boys interested in the building trades. Says Fred Kleisner of the Greater Washington (D.C.) Board of Trade: "What it tells the private sector is that the Federal Government is willing to give them an incentive to put a youngster to work...
...spoke, the Hertz of teachers' unions was meeting in Philadelphia. The National Education Association, which represents 1.7 million school employees, controlled the largest bloc of delegates and alternates at the 1980 Democratic Convention. Diametrically opposed to Reagan's policies, the N.E.A. last week played host to five Democratic presidential hopefuls. The mood of the delegates at the N.E.A. meeting was defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That...
...Blue Jays are bubbling, but the Expos, division champs in 1981 and on the verge of a pennant for years, are less taken with the standings. "We haven't sparkled," says Oliver, the defending batting champion. "We've been lucky that the rest of the division [Philadelphia, St. Louis, et al.) has been pretty lousy too." Emotionally, neither team reflects its customers. As Stieb says, "Montreal has a lot of French Canadians, hot-blooded and spirited types. Toronto fans are English Americans, a bit more staid." However, he has noticed increased fan enthusiasm in Toronto since the team...
Along with management know-how, private enterprise has introduced new marketing techniques to the hospital business. Cooper Medical Center in Camden, N.J., last January hired a plane to carry a streamer over Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during a football game with the message: COOPER DOCTORS, YOUR OTHER WINNING TEAM. Some institutions give birthday parties for babies born in their hospitals in the hope of encouraging repeat visits. At Humana's Women's Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with...
...case that made the CDC known to the public at large remains a classic in the annals of medical detective work. In July 1976, Pennsylvania chapters of the American Legion held a rollicking convention at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. In the next few days, eleven Pennsylvanians died, apparently of pneumonia; a Legion officer alerted health authorities that the victims all had attended the convention. A phone call was made to Atlanta for help. Late that night, Dr. Theodore Tsai, an EIS officer, arrived in the state health office, carrying a cooler, to collect blood samples and respiratory secretions...