Word: placement
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...adjustments in routine: sit for a minute or two before getting out of bed; clench and release the fists and wiggle the ankles throughout the day; and stay away from shoes with sticky rubber bottoms, which are as treacherous as slippery soles. She also advises them in the strategic placement of rudimentary safety equipment. This is pretty simple stuff--but highly effective. Within Tinetti's sample population of seniors, the number of falls has declined...
...last spring just after housing assignments were announced, a vitriolic thread on that house's news-group attacked the placement of a group of returning missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Adams...
...race and poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light," it seems clear that he didn't absorb all the lessons. "Under the original proposal that Clinton introduced when he entered office," Wilson explains, "welfare recipients would be required to undergo training and job placement during a two-year maintenance period, then accept jobs in the private sector. But if private-sector jobs weren't available, public-sector jobs would have to be created. Unfortunately these provisions were not in the bill that he signed today...
...Yumachev, Yeltsin's close friend and ghostwriter. "The President decided in February that the campaign Soskovets was running was going nowhere. He needed someone he could trust completely, and she was it." None of Yeltsin's other senior campaign officials was "what you would call pleased with Tatiana's placement," adds Pavel Borodin, Yeltsin's Minister of the Presidency, the government's general-services manager. "But because she had no personal agenda they couldn't plot against her. Her power obviously derived from that, but also from her native intelligence and the knowledge she gained from the Americans, who brought...
Floating high over the Times Square store is a 40-ft. sign for Virgin Cola, a somewhat odd ad placement as the product isn't sold here. But that's going to change too. Branson's Virgin Cola company is going to take on American icons Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola on their home turf, beginning in July. This is a plan that most marketers would pronounce foolhardy--if only it rose to that level...