Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...enemy." To a Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work with the anti-Nazi underground in Norway. When he returned to Germany in 1945, "little more than the memory of a not entirely easy childhood bound me to the name of my birth and the name of my then unmarried mother." He continued to call himself Willy Brandt because "I wanted expressly...
...year-old Philippine doctor sat grimly in a Bronx hospital one day last week, hands clenched, anger and sadness on her face. In 1958 she had paid her own fare to New York, happy at the opportunity to work and study in the U.S. Now a senior resident at the hospital (salary: $3,180), she had earned the full respect of her colleagues. Said the medical superintendent: '"Outstanding-a record such as you have never seen...
...A.M.A., together with the American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges and Federation of State Medical Boards, created the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Its job: to set standards for foreign-trained doctors, administer qualifying tests. To win permission to work in a U.S. hospital, a candidate must score 75% or better on the Educational Council exam. If he scores 70% to 74%, he can stay in the U.S., bone up to take the exams again...
...remain with their hospitals until next July 1 can take another crack at the qualifying test in April. But they will not be permitted to treat patients until they pass the exam. The A.M.A. and the State Department also agreed that in the future, foreign doctors who want to work in the U.S. must pass the qualifying examinations in their own countries before even applying for exchange-visitor visas...
...after Thanksgiving," said David Lowe, producer of last week's "Harvest of Shame" on CBS Reports, "we could stress the fact that much of the food cooked for Thanksgiving throughout the country was picked by migratory workers. We hoped that the pictures of how these people live and work would shock the consciousness of the nation...