Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beach, the residents' experiences as patients-for-a-day have prompted administrators to accelerate the hospital's admissions process: it now takes 15 minutes or less. Other results are harder to measure but just as significant. Robert Stambaugh admits that he felt "self-conscious and silly" during his brief stint impersonating a patient at Uniformed Services. But two years later, he drew on the experience to summon up sympathy for an obstreperous patient whose brain had been injured in a car accident. "He'd throw bedpans, pull out catheters and verbally abuse everyone," Stambaugh recalls. As the student doctor...
With the town-gown task force's year-long stint now over, committee members and city officials agree that a permanent forum for communication needs to be established...
...local federal agent. "Kids were busting into houses left and right, stealing precious metals and lining up outside his store." By the time he pleaded guilty in 1985 to tax evasion, Saccoccia was reputedly a key moneymaking "associate" for New England's Patriarca Mafia family. After a brief stint in jail, say investigators, he started his laundering business...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association welcomed Harvard back to Division I play after a ten year stint in Division II. But if Harvard wants to keep its place in Division I it must win some tough matches against Dartmouth and other fierce competitors. Unlike the rest of the competition, the Harvard Ski Team has no local mountains or trails at which to train. Competition, however, has proven to bring out the best in all 36 men and women who have given their lives to bring outside in the worst of weather. Says captain Paul Dufays. "Its a tough sport...
Five years later (minus a brief stint in 1986-87 working for another fast food chain), Wernher P. is still there, now with his brother, Berkeley. The two share an apartment in Chelsea...