Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is the solution? Trying to attract young nurses by offering higher starting salaries is a first step. But the cost of constantly having to train new nurses drains the resources of virtually every major medical center. The money might be better spent on creating incentives for experienced nurses to stay. "Nurses who are competent and show potential for professional growth ought to be able to double their salaries in ten years and triple them by retirement," argues Judith Ryan, executive director of the American Nurses' Association, based in Kansas City. "That would make us competitive with other professions...
...five-second spurt broke a 4-4 tie and put the Crimson on a Green Line train bound for Boston Garden, where Clarkson will be waiting Friday night for an ECAC Final Four matchup...
This task entails a willed return to innocence, to the raw emotions of an 18-year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret...
...cared too much, probably not in the right way. He bought an expensive pitching machine just to help his daughter train. But he brought us spring training in January, and for that I thank...
...undergraduates have a hell of a lot to learn about respect," she fired off. "You have beer parties to all hours of the morning, play your stereos too loud--and who knows what else you do!" Like a train, her momentum carried her as she gasped for breath. "You take up the space that used to be for visiting professors. Learned people would come with their families. You could learn so much from them...