Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ease those fragile parts just one more time around. He was a friendly guy with a beard that ran off of his chin the same way the wires must have run off his distributor cap loose and tangled. He took me all the way to Berkeley, across the Bay Bridge, across Treasure Island and he dropped me on Berkeley's main drag by the side of Interstate...
...region: China. While making appropriately joyful noises about the Communist victory in South Viet Nam, Peking is probably far from delighted by the pro-Moscow leanings of Hanoi. There were reports last week that the Soviets have already asked for use of the vast naval base at Cam Ranh Bay-an arrangement that an alarmed Peking will certainly try to head...
...Forty-First Thief by Edward A. Pollitz Jr. (Delacorte; $8.95) is a perfect book for someone stranded at an airport by a delayed flight. It is well enough written to hold boredom temporarily at bay but so trivial that if left behind at O'Hare Airport, one would be less disturbed than if one had misplaced a book of matches. The author's fancy here is that an eccentric inventor, working in secrecy at St.-Tropez, is on the point of perfecting a solar-powered car. The Arabs are out to stop him before he sells his process...
Mount Zion is one of San Francisco's largest hospitals and normally schedules from 40 to 60 operations a day. Last week, on its busiest day, only eleven were scheduled. Operating rooms at 45 other institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area were also unusually quiet -and with good reason. Having declined to pay what they considered prohibitively high premiums for malpractice insurance, 307 northern California anesthesiologists had refused either to renew their insurance policies or practice without coverage and had walked off their jobs...
...rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed their policies; the rest refused to perform nonessential work...