Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hill said there needs to be "a shift in focus before we can fix the problem...
Bennett says most of the third riders are pre-meds, although anyone is welcome to join the program. Riders typically volunteer for a six to eight hour shift per week. The time commitment is discouraging for some people, he says, but volunteers need to work a long shift in order to see a significant number of calls...
...kind of hard to come back from a night-shift dealing with people that can't even pay the rent and feel bad for the people that are upset about a late problem set," he says. "Just because you get an A in orgo [organic chemistry] doesn't mean you're going to be a good doctor. I think that's why the third rider program is so good...
...mostly the shift is away from traditional swashbuckle and toward more contemporary themes. Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe notes that last year's stagings of Philip Glass's minimalist opera The Voyage didn't sell out, but he saw a whole new crowd in his theater. Increasingly, composers are turning to emotionally charged contemporary subjects. Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk is considered a forerunner of a new creative order. On the drawing boards are works about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Michael Daugherty, and John Duffy's Black Water, about Chappaquiddick...
...Lawrence is coming off a big win last weekend," Higdon said. "Obviously we'll have to focus on being consistent and taking one game at a time, period by period, shift by shift and playing aggressive for 60 minutes...