Word: arizona
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...some states, hospitals are closing entire clinics and rural communities are losing their only practitioners. Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia closed its maternity ward after annual insurance premiums for its group of four hospitals swelled to $22 million, from $7 million in 2000. In Arizona one woman gave birth by the side of the road before she reached the only remaining maternity ward in an area of 6,000 sq. mi. The sole trauma center in Las Vegas closed for 10 days in July, forcing critically injured patients to be helicoptered to California or treated in ill-equipped local emergency rooms...
...Garcia and junior transfer Brad Payne are among those reserves. Parker, a converted linebacker, will spell Brush at left tackle. Garcia had strong spring workouts as a sophomore, and could be one of the few non-seniors to contribute immediately. Payne is a transfer from Mesa Community College in Arizona who will figure into the jumble at defensive...
...China and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong, says the popularity of the boots reflects a yearning to stand out from the herd: 'Customers look for something new. The hip ones want something other than just a regular pair of boots.' The trend is more rooted in Italy than Arizona. According to Shanghai Tang's international marketing manager Joanne Ooi, buckskin, fringes and cowboy boots are the latest twist on the 'motorcycle chic' look engineered by Gucci and Nicolas Ghesquiere a few years back. 'There is a Western vibe in fashion now. (Designers) are looking to the Wild West...
Suzanne Simmonds was fed up. For 6 1/2 years, she had been unable to collect the child support her ex-boyfriend was legally required to pay. So in January 2001 she signed a contract with Child Support Network. She agreed to pay the Arizona company a $500 application fee and a 35% commission on any collections of the $3,800 owed to her daughter. After five months, the agency had pocketed $885, and Simmonds had received just $215. When she tried to get out of the contract, the company refused, ordered her to pay more than...
...decade's oil shocks, which produced a short-lived vogue for alternate heating technologies. The simultaneous rise of environmentalism also inspired what you might call hobbit architecture, cottages crowned with listless greenery and the odd solar panel. Paolo Soleri's ecotopian settlement, Arcosanti, began to take shape in the Arizona desert. But it wasn't until the 1990s that green architecture gained a foothold in mainstream building. That was partly the result of a growing realization that "sustainable" buildings have lower long-term heating and cooling costs. States began offering tax incentives for construction that put less pressure on power...