Word: wacker
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Because football players and first-years made up the majority of the reported cases during the first outbreak, investigators pinpointed the Freshman Union and the Varsity Club as the most likely dining areas where students could have contracted the infection, according to then-UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker...
...Although Wacker admitted to only eight positively proven Salmonella poisonings in Winthrop, residents insisted that a much larger number of students were actually sick...
...Wacker said that the temporary employees were not banned because they were considered health hazards. Rather, he said, it would be impossible to test the temporary employees—who are assigned on a day-to-day basis—because UHS did not receive test results until three days after testing...
When authors Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker call someone a deviant, they intend it as high praise. In their new book, The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, the duo explain how "positive" deviance "is the backbeat of commerce, the rhythm of innovation that drives wealth creation and defines attitudes and values." It's often the "oddball" ideas--from sticky Post-it notes to the Blair Witch Project (a film which cost $60,000 to make, and grossed $240 million)--that make fortunes for enterprising companies. The resulting product or service must of course be polished...
...rethink their early-retirement plans; a diversified 401(k) that tracks the S&P 500, for instance, lost nearly 12% last week alone--and has lost 33% in the past 12 months. "This is not the time to be gambling with your life savings," says financial planner Robert Wacker, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., who like many Americans shifted more of his portfolio--perhaps a bit late--into the relative safety of bonds...