Word: shifts
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...know that I will not like it 20 years from now when I'm 68 and having to be taken care of by these guys," says Dr. Paul Shekelle, a professor of medicine at UCLA. "It's all shift work now. When 5 o'clock comes, whatever it is they're doing, they just sign it all out to the 5 o'clock person. It's eroding the sense of duty, or commitment to being the person responsible for a patient's care...
...time, it was not clear whether Harvard would seek to replace those stars, or whether it would shift away from internal management entirely...
...they run campaigns filled with tedious generalizations and clichéd trivialities—“longer dining hours” anyone? A lack of platforms has also resulted in UC elections turning into popularity contests. Last May, a bill was proposed to the UC to shift to direct elections and attract more people eager to manage financial statements or design cool social events. This would have led to more sophisticated electoral platforms, and consequently, more devoted representatives in all committees, rather than just one. Regrettably, it got shot down. Despite support from experienced delegates like President John...
...first glance, the latest bill to modify how the Undergraduate Council (UC) awards grants seems like little more than a technical shift. Currently, groups of students qualify for funding only if they comply with the UC’s strict nondiscrimination code. Under the new proposal, however, a group could also receive funding if Harvard College’s Committee on College Life (CCL) recognizes it as an official student group, regardless of whether the group meets the UC’s nondiscrimination policies. In both the current and proposed frameworks, the event or project for which a student organization...
More than four months after the election, a shift in the position of incumbent prime minister may finally open the way for the creation of a new Iraqi government. But expectations that the formation of such a government will do much to reverse the country's sectarian drift are diminishing...