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...their pride and let the position fall to a capable outsider. But although the E.C.B. sets crucial monetary policy for 12 nations and prides itself on independence from politics, that's a bet few seasoned gamblers would take. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY A Fight for the Rights to Silence When Mike Batt, British writer of cutesy hits like Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes, was finishing his latest work, Classical Graffiti, an album of pop-classic arrange-ments by the Planets, he was careful to credit the ori-ginal composers. He even titled the minute's silence that preceded the bonus tracks...
Geoffrey S. Batt...
...incident got Batt thinking: How could his small, 70-bed community hospital offer low-income patients a way to pay for the rising cost of health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked...
...Batt tried out his idea on colleagues. Many were dubious. But hospital board chairman Darryl Brown, son of a Maine dirt farmer who cut brush on the county road to pay his property taxes, weighed in with his opinion. They would...
Would the program work elsewhere? "It can work anywhere," says Batt, who came to the region from Denver, where he ran a 565-bed hospital. "It's a way to help patients help themselves." O'Leary puts it this way: "It gives you a good feeling that you aren't a charity case...