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...unyielding earth. Bare and mute. Wyoming swells to dwarf the trucks hard-panting up her hills. In rust hues the sky descended upon her forlorn tracts, swallowing puny hamlets: a cafe, a grocery store, a gas station, a truckstop, a few shacks, 200 people--all in white; and blistering vacant roads. Over the endless, straight, dust-heaped earth, the van torches at 95 mph, slowing up every 15 minutes or so for an oncoming car. At 9:30 p.m. we catch the night at Lander and sleep...
...protest and many responded reluctantly. Some doctors as well as patients considered it ill-timed and dubious at best. It soon became apparent that the doctors' closest allies were suffering most of all. Hospitals in already precarious financial straits were further imperiled by the growing number of vacant beds; hospital workers were being laid off and many were already on a four-day week. Said Dr. Jameson Chassin, chief of surgery at Booth Memorial Medical Center: "The risks of damage to our own employees was greater than the additional educational value of the protest. We really have no desire...
...offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over to fill Prentice's Education portfolio. As one Labor M.P. observed, it was "a classic Wilsonian reshuffle: no inspiration, all tactics, every move a tortuously devised counterpiece...
...search to fill the vacant mastership positions of Lowell, North, and South Houses this year was a thorn in the side of President...
...patrol's coordinator, Samford L. Maier, a third-year law student, had collected pay by adding unworked patrol hours to other member's paychecks and had been paid while on Christmas vacation. The group also alleged that it was common practice for supervisors to write in their names for vacant patrol shifts and obtain compensation for what was said to be time spent supervising...