Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope to lure to the polls with the condo issue is students, who, since they are transient by nature, might oppose conversion of rental units. That job may be difficult: in the last municipal election, where housing was also an issue, the predominantly-student third precinct of the sixth ward turned out only 349 of 1462 registered voters. Ballot referenda on South Africa, nuclear power and the Kennedy candidacy may draw more students to the ballot box this year, but the issues are no guarantee. "Based on their past experience, many politicians in this city tend to take the student...
...past, most nurses got their training in hospital-based schools. After three years, they received diplomas and proudly wore caps emblematic of their schools. Today, as the profession attempts to upgrade itself, more and more nurses are in the classroom rather than the ward, pursuing either two-year associate degrees or four-year baccalaureate degrees at colleges and universities. Enrollment in such courses has jumped so sharply (from 67,000 to 194,000 in the past decade) that more than half of traditional training programs have shut down for lack of students and money. One likely casualty: the 106-year...
Many nurses from both hospital schools and degree programs echo the doctors' concern. Loretta Chiarelli, head nurse of the emergency ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Medical Center for twelve years, says that many young college graduates arrive ignorant of routine procedures. Says she: "These skills -let alone complex tasks-just are not easily mastered amid the tensions and emotions of a ward setting." Adds Rita Bellersen, a coronary-care nurse at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Seattle: "We're now telling patients how to rearrange their entire lives. But we're forgetting to change their...
...also, he says, a "lifelong Democrat" who managed to be elected to the state legislature in the Eisenhower landslide. Redistricted out of his seat in 1954, he decided to go to law school and become a criminal defense lawyer. All the while, he stayed active in Democratic ward politics, and his loyalty was rewarded when he was backed for a judgeship by Congressman Raymond F. Lederer, whom White describes as "a close personal friend...
...took a fair amount of brass and something like genius to transcend these limitations. Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz and Mickey Rooney in Boys' Town did it by the sheer force of their gift. But to ward the close of World War II, styles changed...