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Burnout runs through the teaching profession like Asian flu-possibly because it depresses people to be physically assaulted by those they are trying to civilize. Two years ago, Willard McGuire, president of the National Education Association, said that burnout among teachers "threatens to reach hurricane force if it isn't checked soon." Social workers and nurses burn out from too much association with hopelessness. Police officers burn out. Professional athletes burn out. Students burn out. Executives burn out. Housewives burn out. And, as every parent knows, there usually comes a moment in late afternoon when baby burnout occurs...
...California, has doubtless led to some of the problems. This type of loan legerdemain encourages the use of medium-term borrowing and schemes such as variable rate mortgages and shared appreciation between the bank and the buyer. But creative financing has become necessary for many would-be homeowners, contends Willard Sprague, an economist at San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank. Says he: "Only about 10% of California households can afford to buy the median-priced home [$105,800 in California] with conventional financing...
...elected president of a state bar. On June 20, 1981, the Rhode Island State Bar Association named Beverly Glenn Long as president. She is the fourth woman to hold such a position. In 1977-78, Carole Kamin Bellows was president of the Illinois State Bar. Alaska has had Donna Willard, while Karen L. Hunt is currently occupying the office...
...viewers back home that the British "Life Guards [are] not to be confused with the American term lifeguards." This mindless small talk was enlightening compared with the shenanigans of the story-starved stars of the morning shows. At various times during the week, David Hartman of ABC played cricket, Willard Scott of NBC frolicked in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, and Joan Lunden of ABC toured London with a magician...
Other scholars challenge the notion that corporate behemoths bring greater efficiency and lower prices. They assert that big firms, like governments, are more likely to become bureaucratic and complacent. Says Willard Mueller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin: "Large companies are not innovative. Hugeness destroys initiative." Indeed, during the past decade, two-thirds of all new jobs in the U.S. were created by businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Some of the most creative and innovative firms in America today, companies such as Apple Computer, Genentech and New York Air, are small, new corporations...