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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should pool information on fraud via computer networks. At the very least, this would prevent thieves from simply repeating their crimes later in fresh territory, as many now do, thanks to lax record keeping by program administrators. In addition, physicians and hospital officials must police their own ranks and blow the whistle on dishonest billing practices. Stricter policing will cost more, but it should pay for itself many times over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Health Care Condition: Critical | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

BETWEEN 1:45 AND 4 P.M. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game through The Ages | 11/23/1991 | See Source »

...headed by Baker, that B.C.C.I. secretly owned First American Bank, the largest bank in the nation's capital -- a critical piece of information that Treasury never pursued. Now TIME has learned that last May B.C.C.I. paid $1.3 million in fees to the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs and Blow, a lobbying powerhouse that includes Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic Party, among its partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal: Too Many Questions | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Middle class families are walking a tightrope," he said, "teetering between economic success and failure, waiting for an unexpected gust to blow them...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, | Title: Rockefeller Proposes Program To Help American Children | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

...apologizing. He just doesn't seem like the type," the student said. "I'm sure he would blow it off if anybody said anything to him about...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: History Prof Denies Charges of Sexism | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

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