Word: behinder
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...fields. Senior Writer George Church relied on his 24 years' experience as a business journalist to untangle the economics of the health care system, an industry that employs more than 3 million people. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, a veteran political analyst, examined the complex issues and divergent proposals behind the health care debate in Congress. Anastasia Toufexis, a reporter for a physicians' newspaper before joining TIME as a Medicine section writer last year, described the intricacies of CAT scanners, coronary bypass surgery and other medical innovations that are as expensive as they are sophisticated...
...Washington, Correspondent Eileen Shields found that reporting the story required expertise in all three subjects, but especially one she happens to have mastered. A New York-based business reporter for four years, Shields was assigned last year to cover HEW. "I thought I left economics reporting behind," she says. "But the health care story, with its barrage of statistics and efficiency rating figures, is as much about business as anything else." The story also required healthy feet. Shields loped through the labyrinthine corridors of the HEW building, lurked about the halls of Congress and made several trips to the White...
Congratulations to Rosalynn Carter [May 7] on the advice she has given her husband. She seems to be very adept at it, and now that we know who the brain is behind all of those decisions, maybe she should be nominated for the presidency. She would probably do a better...
...still clearly admires Carter, and concludes: "Carter is still the best hope for some day bringing the Government under control." No other potential President, from Kennedy to Connally, "would be more likely to recognize the bureaucratic pitfalls than a re-elected President Carter with four years of painful education behind him; nor would they offer the stability of character that is Jimmy Carter's greatest strength." The final verdict: "I am prepared to vote for him again...
...voting: "Who cares? My vote won't change the results." On that basis could we excuse from moral responsibility those who freelyand knowingly voted for fascism in Germany? Similarly, our purchases are a vote, a selective preference for Stevens goods. The votes of the many churches, schools and hospitals behind the Stevens boycott would carry real weight with that company...