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...later, she's in Washington, working for a real U.S. Senator and salivating around the powerful. She's primarily a receptionist, but it looks better on her resume to say press secretary. It's no big deal. Then it's on to a newspaper and a career in journalism. This leads to writing books jammed with dirt on famous people. Soon she's pulling in zillions. She owns a mansion, wears designer clothes, chums with notables at glittering parties. Makes a lot of friends. Makes a lot more enemies, thanks to her inimitable way with the rumors that she gathers...
...matters were not muddled enough, a storm has erupted in recent years over the uneven quality and accuracy of mammograms around the U.S. "Half the states do not have a licensing procedure for radiologic technologists. It could be the office receptionist pushing those buttons," warns Marie Zinninger, a quality-control specialist for the American College of Radiology. Another problem, according to the National Cancer Institute, is that General Electric, Philips and other manufacturers have flooded the market with mammography machines. Many wind up in the offices of doctors who lack the proper training in the use and maintenance of these...
...same receptionist still greets visitors as they come through the heavy glass doors outside the elevator. The same heavy portrait of some decades-old member of the Cabot family still hangs in the lobby...
...SEPTEMBER 10, Patricia Jones, 63, of Washington D.C. complained to her children of chest pains and shortness of breath. One of her daughters brought her to D.C. General Emergency Room, where she was asked to sit in the waiting area. Three hours later, she collapsed in front of the receptionist's desk with a blood clot in her lung, less than 50 feet from advanced resuscitation equipment. After 30 minutes of intensive treatment, physicians declared her dead...
...hadn't reached a receptionist, but I had certainly received a warm reception. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad, after...