Aiken nurse’s aide wins Dr. Frist First Award honor
Gladys Bledsoe of Aiken earned the local Dr. Thomas F. Frist Award for service at HCA Aiken Regional Medical Center. A longtime resident with days as clerk and housewife, she trained in 1975 and works in the coronary care unit. Her kindness and patient care are highlighted by associates.
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Aiken
Gladys Bledsoe
Aiken County Hospital
HCA
Aiken Regional Medical Center
Thomas F. Frist
HCA Aiken Regional Medical Center
Jury sides with NFL in USFL antitrust case
New York jurors delivered a moral victory to the USFL but awarded only a symbolic three dollars, denying the league financial damages despite its decline. The decision upheld the NFL as a monopoly and left the failing USFL without relief or major networks to air its games.
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USFL
New York
National Football League
NFL
Ma Bell
Los Alamos hot dry rock pilot test signals new energy option
After 14 years and 160 million dollars a Los Alamos National Laboratory pilot plant in New Mexico shows heat from deep underground can generate electricity on a commercial scale. The hot dry rock method pumps water into a 2.42 mile deep fracture system and returns superheated steam without emissions or radioactive waste.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico
Los Alamos
Thought For Today Courage Reveals Real Valor Quote
A reflective quote attributed to Thomas Fuller notes that many would be cowards if they had courage enough, offering a concise moral about bravery.
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Thomas Fuller
Understanding God as Holy Justice and Loving Savior
Mrs. E W asks how God can be both judge and loving. The reply explains two truths: God is holy and will judge sin, and His love is deeper than humanity. Jesus Christ bore humanity's punishment on the cross to show justice and love, inviting personal acceptance of Christ's gift of salvation.
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E.W
Christ
Jesus Christ
God
Kennedy protests Rehnquist bid for chief justice
Raymond Coffey argues that Senator Kennedy and liberal allies stage a political fight over William Rehnquist's fitness and ideology while President Reagan presses ahead with his choice. The piece recalls past attempts to elevate F X Morrissey and notes NOW opposition as partisan leverage rather than qualification debates.
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Reagan
Teddy Kennedy
United States
Massachusetts
William Rehnquist
Supreme Court
Rehnquist
Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Daniel Manion
Manion
F.X. Morrissey
Sachusetts
National Organization of Women (Now
Walter Mondale
White House
Eleanor Smeal
Minnesota
Hassan and Peres Meeting Signals Shifting Arab Stance
The piece argues Hassan's public talk with Peres breaks Arab taboo and pressures Jordan and other states toward peace with Israel. It notes Syria under Assad moves to widen influence while maintaining ties with Western democracies, urging cautious U.S. stance to avoid empowering extremists.
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Israel
Morocco
Shimon Peres
Hassan
Anwar Sadat
Peres
United States
Libya
Polisario
West
Camp David
Egypt
Mubarak
Jordan
Hussein
Algeria
Syria
PLO
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
The
Gulf Association
Soviet Union
Hafez Assad
Assad
Berlin
Ayatollah Khomeini
Muammar Kadafi
West Beirut
Lebanon
Iraq
Corporate Angel Network links cancer patients with spare seats
Pat Blum after a 1969 mastectomy founded CAN with Jay Weinberg to match empty seats on corporate aircraft to cancer patients traveling to treatment. Since 1981 CAN has grown to coordinate about 45 flights monthly, with 400 company volunteers and a Westchester County Airport base, aiding patients nationwide. It complements California’s Medical Support Flight Team and anticipates expanding for next year’s Special Olympics airlift.
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Pat Blum
Westchester County
White Plains
N.Y
Pat
Jay Weinberg
Michael Burnett
Trenton
Mich
Sloan-Kettering
New York
CAN
American Cancer Society
U.S
California
Cessna
South Bend
Ind
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Omaha World-Herald
DR. Graham
F. X. Morrissey
By Raymond Coffey
Chicago Tribune
France
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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