Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the striking interns and residents told horror stories of falling asleep on their feet during operations; one admitted that he had pulled out several stitches after dozing off while holding an incision open with retractors. To reduce the chances of hospital accidents, the C.I.R. asked for a shorter week with a limit of 15 hours to a shift whenever possible...
...effects of the strike are likely to be felt far beyond New York. The American Medical Association, which has had trouble attracting younger physicians, endorsed the strikers' demands for shorter shifts. The organization's action can only encourage other interns and residents to make similar demands on hospitals across the nation...
...MUSICAL ineptness was not the sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune. Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other. A lesser problem was his lack of melodic gift. As the third movement of the Serenoodle, entitled "Chorale Prelude," amply demonstrated. P.D.Q. Bach stole tunes from his better freely and without compunction...
...well-organized, aggressive type who might enjoy the battle it would take to bring them around..." She also observes that there are few lower class and lower middle class men and women volunteering, but says she hopes this is changing: "There are some exciting indications now that shorter work periods without loss of pay, and increased activism among all classes, will bring these long-missed men and women into community activities on a volunteer basis. I hope so. It would greatly enrich the volunteer scene, other volunteers and their clients...
...Westminster Shorter Catechism...