Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...experienced a total of eleven cardiac incidents; during all but two of them, the machine restored normal heartbeat. One patient died even though the defibrillator worked faultlessly. The doctors shut down the device in a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy because his heartbeat was so rapid that it triggered frequent shocks. The device is now being reprogrammed to accept the boy's quick pulse. The longest user is a 57-year-old California woman who, after six months with a defibrillator, is leading a normal life...
Traveling farther afield, the city's only high school--one block east of Harvard Yard--is ringed by pizza places. Black students congregate at one and whites frequent another, but late nights both Angelos and Mass House of Pizza are accessible to all. Get a roast beef sub at Angelos, then wander across the high school campus for a large cheese pie at "Mass House...
...youth any protection against the searing sun. Randy Bossing, 26, was working last week on his roof in Missouri. He took frequent breaks to douse himself with water from a garden hose but soon began complaining that he felt faint. Then he slumped over dead, another victim of the heat...
...area of aircraft maintenance, the panel suggests that the agency increase its surveillance of airline mechanics, making use of frequent and unannounced inspections at airline maintenance facilities. (Improper handling of the DC-10's engine pylon mounts during routine maintenance caused the damage that led to the calamitous engine loss in Chicago.) The report also recommended that at least for engineering work, there should be a centralized organization with facilities and staff large and attractive enough to lure people of the highest technical competence to the agency's ranks...
...earn less than counterparts at other large papers. What is more, the Journal's tightly edited format prevents most reporters from getting on Page One more than once a month or so, and even when they do, bylines are small and gray. In the past, these drawbacks caused frequent defections to other publications. Says N.R. Kleinfield, who left for the New York Times: "The old joke was that the Times could offer you two things the Journal couldn't -fame and money. There's a lot of truth in that still...