Word: barriere
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Gliickwünsche for writing such an excellent account of the Wall of Shame. Having visited Berlin during the past month, I can now wholeheartedly agree that the barrier is "unnatural and inhuman." To see the clean, modern and progressive city of West Berlin and, in contrast, the poverty of the Eastern half makes one realize that the benefits of Communism...
...Barrier of Cost." Any organization as revolutionary as Medikaiser was bound to stir up storms of controversy about the quality of its medical care and its general effect on the practice of medicine. But impartial medical authorities in California rate Kaiser hospitals' care as "topnotch." and the groups' medical care as "very good...
...plan of this type, insists quiet, shy Dr. Garfield, has two built-in advantages. Doctors, he says, do their best when everything they do is overseen and may be reviewed by their colleagues; patients, on the other hand, go to their doctor sooner when there is no "barrier of cost." This makes possible the most rewarding practice of all: preventive medicine. To provide the personal touch, Kaiser subscribers are given a reasonably long list from which to select a general practitioner or internist to serve as their family physician. Some keep the same family doctor for years; on his referral...
Collecting the Ladder. As columns of flames shot through the trees on the Communist side, three of the West Berlin youths, toting two 8-ft. ladders and a pair of wire clippers, raced to the Wall. Placing a ladder against the barrier, one of the boys scrambled up, snipped the barbed wire on top of the concrete, and lowered the second ladder down the other side. Hardly had it hit the ground when the escapee sprang from his doorway 55 ft. away and clambered up and over the Wall two rungs at a time. So nonchalant were his rescuers that...
...years ago Schwartz considered retirement, but his subordinates, as he tells the story, twisted his arm to remain because "the company would make more money if I stayed on." Now he is determined to stay at least until Jonathan Logan cracks the trade's version of a sound barrier-the $100 million sales year...