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...workers, prefer the new evaluative technique because they see it as a matter-of-fact measurement of their output as opposed to a boss's personal opinion. Says R. Douglas MacIntyre, a senior vice president of Management Science America, which develops monitoring programs: "We are letting management make better, quicker decisions based on facts, not emotions...
...therapists are involved in the ongoing project at three sites: the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City; and George Washington University in Washington. The study compares the effectiveness of two forms of brief psychotherapy with treatment by a standard antidepressant drug, imipramine. The drug got quicker results, but the talk therapies caught up after three months. By the end of the 16-week test period, all three treatments had eliminated serious symptoms of depression in more than half the patients...
...occurred to Gooden to ask himself, "Are you really this good?" But the answer is classified. "You shouldn't dwell on that," he says. "It can scare you." With no declared goals except to "stay hungry," Gooden pledges, "I'll never say I'm satisfied. I can still get quicker to the plate with men on base." Stealing was an early problem of his: base runners were a novelty...
...adjustment will be that the players can shoot the puck harder and get the shot away quicker, which means you have to be in position that much quicker," Blair says. "If you're lazy, there gonna put the puck by you. But people seem to say my style of stand up and come out is more fit for the NHL than the college game...
Health. Because of tighter and tighter restrictions on Medicare reimbursements, hospitals are discharging many Medicare patients early --"sicker and quicker," as many doctors put it. In addition, patients this year face higher payments out of their own pockets: as much as $492 for the first day's stay, vs. $400 previously. Reagan wants to cut up to $5 billion more from health-care spending, and Congress may have to accept a figure almost as high. Part of the pain will inevitably fall on the elderly: in Reagan's proposal they would have to pay $18.70 a month in premiums...