Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...utilization of income from the endowment of the University's American history research center to pay tenured American history professors summer stipends totalling as much as 22 per cent above their regular academic salaries has sparked a serious controversy among the History faculty, dividing senior Europeanists and Americanists in the department...
According to one Warren Center source, the practice of making summer stipends from Warren Center income available to the American history professors on a regular basis began only in recent years. The source said that the practice became widespread after Rosovsky used offers of summer stipends as a bargaining chip in bringing to the University David Donald, Warren Professor of American Civilization, Stephen Thernstrom, professor of History, and Robert Fogel, who holds appointments in both Economics and History...
...hitchhiking does not, of course, mean standing on runways and sticking out your thumb, nor does it demand crawling stealthily into luggage compartments. Instead, you go to private airports, or private hangars in regular airports, and hang out. Hang out, and look friendly, and don't be shy. Eventually (it may take a few minutes, or a few hours) a kindly executive, a bored pilot, a why-the-hell-not sportsman will shrug and smile and take your bags. Easy...
...then goes on to Hutcheson. If he deems it unworthy of a showing to Carter, Hutcheson may ask for a revision. While he claims to try hard not to do violence to other staffers' ideas, he has gained a reputation for abrasiveness. Lately, he has been holding regular discussions with eight to ten other j.v. staffers on the "longerrange picture." Says he: "People have to know what's coming...
...hospitalization as at shortening it. Barring unforeseen complications, patients who have undergone gall-bladder operations, for example, are sent home only five days after surgery-compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even an electrical hoist like the one that helps Susan Foss...