Word: 47th
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...salaried doctors or the classic system of independent ones. At Dunn, doctors are all self-employed and work for patients on a fee-for-service basis. "The worst thing that has happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year-old in his 47th year of practice at Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients out the door. The average length of stay...
...attraction between a recruit and a drill sergeant sometimes flows both ways--if, that is, some of the young women are to blame--but Army officials, at least publicly, reject this argument. "Who's the vulnerable party?" asks Major Ralph Palmiero, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry Division at Fort Leonard Wood. "A new private who is so scared and vulnerable, who doesn't understand the Army? Or a drill sergeant, who definitely knows better?" Now that the military has decided to ask, it is likely that more women soldiers will start to tell...
...land that would become the state had been colonized mainly by French, Spanish and French-speaking Acadians, and it has the strongest French cultural inheritance of any of the states. Louisianans have unfortunately also been poorer than most Americans, and have remained so--as of 1994 the state ranked 47th in median household income. Tough economic times in the mid-'80s led Louisiana to lean Democratic at the same time other Southern states were leaning Republican. More recently, however, the G.O.P. has crept back, leaving the two major parties almost evenly balanced...
BORN: Oct. 28, 1945, Los Angeles EDUCATION: U of California at Davis, B.A., 1976; Southwestern U, J.D., 1981 FAMILY: Separated; one child RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Democratic nominee for Tulsa city council, 1996 address: 5315 East 47th Place, No. 6-G, Tulsa...
...Dream Girls, a.k.a. the U.S. women's basketball team, won their 47th-straight game, defeating Cuba 106-58. Smothering defense helped turn a 58-32 halftime lead into a rout over a team that should be a medal contender in Atlanta. Lisa Leslie, the 6-ft. 5-in. center, led the Americans with 17 points. She said the team is paying no attention to its winning streak. "It means nothing to us," she said. "When we go to the Olympics, it's going to be zero-zero...