Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, after Sherman had collected expenses from Radio Corp. of America for three separate interviews at four different plants, RCA got suspicious and notified postal inspectors. Later an engineering placement service sent one of Sherman's resumes to Radiation Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., a firm that Sherman had listed as a "former employer." Radiation officials checked with the federal postal authorities, and Sherman's jig was up. Arrested in Orlando, Sherman pleaded guilty to three counts of using the mails to defraud and now faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. Sighs Sherman: "I'm glad...
Useless Pumping. In transposition, placement of the heart's outflow pipes is reversed. The aorta, the great artery designed to supply oxygenated blood to the entire body, arises from the right lower chamber (ventricle) of the heart instead of from the left. As a result, it carries used blood back into circulation. The pulmonary artery, designed to carry used blood to the lungs for oxygenation, arises from the left ventricle instead of from the right; as a result, oxygen-enriched blood is pumped uselessly back and forth between lungs and heart...
...daily and 1,000,000 Sunday could not have survived. After all, it was the second biggest daily in the U.S., topped only by Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the New York Daily News (1,915,000 daily, 2,000,000 Sunday). But in that very placement-the News first, the Mirror a laggard second-lay part of the reason for the Mirror's death. For all of its 39 years the Mirror sought to copy the front runner, an ambition it was totally unequipped to achieve...
...Corps all through training that he was not a radio man despite what the IBM machine said. On his application he had listed his brief experience at a radio operator the Army. He says he knows enough about radios to turn them on and off. When he protested his placement to a Peace Corps official, the official told Murray to "keep going, we'll find something for you to do in Brazil...
...with the ball on a double reverse and threw to Bassett, an eligible receiver this year under a new rule. From the 12 Scott Harshbargar raced to the 2 behind sharp blocks thrown by Grana and Bassett, Bilodean scored from the one two plays later, and Hartranft booted another placement...