Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich was, his children say, a hard man to talk to and a harder one to please. Bob led his military units and his family by example, not endearment. "We were all terrified of my father," Susan recalls. "It was very clear that he was the head of the household, and his word was final." When he learned by mail while in Vietnam that Susan was smoking as a teenager, he wrote back and told her to stop. From then on she never even thought of sneaking a cigarette. "Newtie," as his mother calls him to this...
...defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with a red bicycle flag and white tape so that, in the words of Sergeant First Class Charles Bradley, as he conducted an outdoor course in Schwetzingen, Germany, "even the dumbest guys in your unit can identify...
...endowed chair recognizes the work of Brazelton, a pediatrician specializing in child development who first joined the Medical School as an instructor of pediatrics in 1953. After becoming a clinical associate in 1966 and an assistant clinical professor in 1969, Brazelton served as chief of Children's child development unit from 1972 to 1989. He is now an emeritus professor of pediatrics and can claim 26 books and more than 180 scientific articles and chapters to his credit...
Harvard was on fire from the get-go, as it got on the board early in the first period the best way it knows how--shorthanded. With less than four minutes elapsed in the contest and with Harvard freshman Ethan Oberman in the penalty box for holding, the shorthanded unit got to work...
...average staff member's case load at 16.9, some workers at the agency's Queens branch put theirs at 25, a number that almost precludes meaningful long-term investigations. "There are no bodies available to do the work," says Bonnie Bufford, a supervisor in a Queens child-protective-services unit. Claims Gail Nayowith, executive director of the Citizens' Committee for Children: "Case loads are rising. Investigations take longer, and some very important programs don't exist . This child and her family should have got services. With appropriate interventions, services and follow-up, [Elisa] would be alive...