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  • His cramped office has become part food pantry, part pharmacy, part toy store, part social-work clinic.

    Egypt's Embattled Christians Seek Room in America Lucette Lagnado 2011

  • According to Beverly Lavoie, social-work manager at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., companies that administer in-home antibiotics often refuse to treat dual eligibles because of that lower rate.

    Overlapping Health Plans Are Double Trouble for Taxpayers Janet Adamy 2011

  • New York did this by rejecting everything that the criminology and social-work professions counseled about crime.

    Notable 2011

  • According to Beverly Lavoie, social-work manager at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., companies that administer in-home antibiotics often refuse to treat dual eligibles because of that lower rate.

    Overlapping Health Plans Are Double Trouble for Taxpayers Janet Adamy 2011

  • Father Luke's cramped office has become part food pantry, part pharmacy, part toy-store, part social-work clinic.

    Copts Seek Asylum in America 2011

  • "Even in the best of times some of these prisoners don't do well when they get out," says David Pate, a social-work professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    More Ex-Cons on the Streets, Fewer Jobs Nathan Koppel 2010

  • Lisa has a social-work degree and she spent much of her time while in Burundi this winter trying to fit her theoretical understandings around the project, designed and led by African Quakers, to heal communities torn apart by the Hutu/Tutsi genocide.

    Roller-coaster pnijjar 2008

  • A particularly credible account of the racket, “Stamping Out Wine Congregations,” appeared in the national social-work magazine Survey, written by Rabbi Rudolph I.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • "Even in the best of times some of these prisoners don't do well when they get out," says David Pate, a social-work professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    More Ex-Cons on the Streets, Fewer Jobs Nathan Koppel 2010

  • "Even in the best of times some of these prisoners don't do well when they get out," says David Pate, a social-work professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    More Ex-Cons on the Streets, Fewer Jobs Nathan Koppel 2010

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