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...actions. "There should be civil penalties against hospitals if they do not report," he says. Reformers like Sidney Wolfe and New York State Health Commissioner David Axelrod go even further, suggesting that doctors should be periodically reviewed when their licenses come up for renewal. Though most doctors would probably balk at such a measure, the profession as a whole would gain rather than lose stature, says Axelrod. "We've got to get away from the guild mentality--members banding together to protect themselves. Such an attitude is antithetical to our responsibility as physicians...
...Judges' fifth inning rally proved only a little more solid. A walk and a single placed runners on first and second, and a Sutton balk placed runners on second and third...
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...that the legislative language covers. When Illinois authorities used RICO to sue a gasoline dealer for understating his state sales tax receipts, a federal appeals court ruled with "distress" that the statute was broad enough to allow the suit. In recent years a few federal courts began to balk at the more ingenious applications. But in a 5-to-4 decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower courts had tried for putting brakes on RICO. Justice Byron White concluded for the majority that while Congress may not have expected legitimate businesses...
...REAGAN Administration has taken the moral high ground on the issue of abortion. Not coming out to condemn abortion clinic bombings. Yet there is a hypocrisy inherent in a government that can call for $100 million to finance killing in Nicaragua and yet balk against sending $100 to terminate a rapist-induced pregnancy in New York City...