Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigning, particularly the opportunities to meet show-business stars, drink a lot of beer and raise some hell during his off-hours. He even envisioned a political future of his own some day. Since he went to work for the Democratic National Committee as a $26,500-a-year staff member, Chip has been an exuberant fund raiser and crowd catcher for the party...
...improved statistical information concerning women. He asked Congress to pass a number of pending bills related to the Houston plan, but his message had little impact on a Congress already concerned with the ending of the session ("What message?" asked a member of Tip O'Neill's staff last week). Many activists were disappointed. "The White House has given us a very good chronicle of exactly where we are right now," says Jane McMichael, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. "But it also makes clear how much more remains to be done...
...their wives. This time, however, it was a day for showing strength and loyalty to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Two weeks ago, in a desperate effort to counter rising opposition to his autocratic rule, the Shah formed a military government headed by General Gholam Reza Azhari, chief of staff of the armed forces...
...Tehran's Military College, the Shah has involved himself deeply in the promotion of all officers, even at middle-grade levels. Liaison between the army, navy and air force, which were separated into three military bureaucracies in 1955, is handled at the top by a royal military staff. That makes it much more difficult for officers of the three services to get together-and possibly conspire against their commander in chief. Beyond that, leaders have been promoted as much for loyalty as ability. General Azhari, 61, the brusque, husky chief of staff who took over as Premier two weeks...
...Clinics are run under unsanitary conditions, and use haphazard procedures. This has sometimes led to severe infections and internal damage that later requires the patient to have a hysterectomy. In one clinic the staff cleaned procedure rooms between patients by wiping up blood with wet tissues. One doctor, Arnold Bickham of the Water Tower Reproductive Center, went from one abortion to the next without washing his hands or donning sterile gloves. Another doctor, Carlos Baldoceda of Biogenetics Ltd., performed an abortion while a nurse gave him what the Sun-Times described as a "sensual massage," and on another occasion...