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...medical community can no longer afford to chew up its nurses and spit them out. "The old attitude toward nurses -- 'work long, work late, work hard' -- is just not going to attract people," says Debbie Davenport, a Los Angeles nurse. Agrees the AHA's Curran: "Nurses aren't content to be the housewives of the hospital anymore." Nor should they...
...that had happened last year, or the year before, it really would have affected me," Janfaza says. "I laughed it off. [Harvard forward] Teddy Donato said I could have skated in, put the puck in my mouth and spit it into the goal...
...Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld Watkins' right to stay in the Army, regulations were tightened in 1981. Since Watkins' 1984 discharge three years short of retirement, he has had trouble finding work and has filed for bankruptcy...
...characters that Wolfe so painstakingly describes are constricted by a system of emptiness and simplicity. The public life of a megalopolis like New York cannot do justice to the humanity of its constituents. The best and brightest, the Masters of the Universe, are gobbled up by the system and spit out in easily digestible tabloid form...
Penn depends on Tyrone Pitts to lead the team. The only returning starter from last year, the 6-ft., 5-in. senior has bitten into opponents and spit out the pits, averaging 16.9 p.p.g., 7.1 r.p.g...