Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as a citizen fills out an application, the SCEOC can make an emergency oil delivery or intervene to put a hold on a delinquent account...
...could receive from bed patients. This time, the Administration would give the hospitals until Jan. 1, 1980, to prove that they can hold the amount of money they spend, rather than take in, to an annual increase of no more than 9.7%, plus an adjustment that would take into account some inflation factors. (Studies show that hospital revenues and expenses climb and fall at similar rates but that expenditures are easier to track.) The failure of a hospital covered by the program to meet this goal would trigger a penalizing mechanism so convoluted that administrators claim it would...
Nobody complained when Opera Diva Helen Traubel sang at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. But James Brown, the king of soul, at the shrine of country music? Well, that is noncountry royalty of a different kind, on account of all the king's funky songs. Insisted Pianist Del Wood, one of a pride of Opry regulars protesting
...lately struggled in a bitter and squalid feud run out of their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend on contributions and account for nearly $17 million of the estimated $30 million a year raised for such ventures, and their embarrassing fight could do more harm...
...that is so, people who anesthetize themselves with booze or pot may be trying to achieve unnaturally what endorphins do naturally. Still, since individual body chemistries vary, the endorphin theory might account for the fact that some people are habitually happier than others: some might just have a bigger supply of this natural analgesic. It may even suggest, moreover, one concrete way in which human beings might assure their sense of happiness; yet this way-the ingestion of synthetic endorphins-is unnervingly like the drug-popping route to happiness envisioned in Brave New World. In all this, alas, nothing much...