But as outsize, underfunded teacher pension and medical benefits wreak havoc on school budgets, unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere are standing on increasingly shaky ground.

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The swarm of runners nearing the finish line as the clock ticked toward 3 in the afternoon included a medical supply salesman, a teacher's aide, a financial analyst in her 55th marathon, and a cop who would become the last recorded finisher of the 117th Boston Marathon.

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Mr Hamilton, of Offerton Close, Sunderland, a former technician at Newcastle University's Medical School, had retrained as a teacher and did supply work throughout the North East.

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For many years he was a teacher: he lists positions held at nine medical schools.

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By coming to the United States he was able to secure the proper medical care, and at Bard he became a member of an academic community as teacher and colleague.

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Swenson, her former teacher, was the doctor on call the night that caused Singh, then a medical resident, to change the course of her career.

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My high school business teacher had recommended me for a position as a part-time receptionist at the medical clinic in the small community where I attended high school.

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