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...counterparts. Of the more than 300 U.S. hospitals that have been forced to close since 1983, about half have been in rural areas. The American Hospital Association estimates that nearly 70% of those still in business are financially ailing. Though Washington recently announced new Medicare reimbursement policies that will boost payments for patients who incur exceptionally high costs, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported last month that the crisis in rural health care may grow even worse. The committee concluded that as many as 600 of the nation's 2,700 rural hospitals are in danger of shutting down...
...Quayle gave a boost to the Republican ticket in Indiana, but Hoosier Democrats won with a favorite son of their own: Evan Bayh, 32, offspring of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh. Handily defeating Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, 53, he became the first Democrat to run the state in 20 years. Bayh has served 22 months as secretary of state, in contrast to Mutz's twelve years in the statehouse and senate, but the young Democrat successfully moved away from his father's liberalism and attacked Mutz for backing tax increases and state subsidies for foreign investors...
That appeal worked just well enough to boost Bush to a respectable majority, although Dukakis did better than expected among Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. According to the NBC-Wall Street Journal Election Day poll, Bush captured just 41% of that critical bloc. Voters who decided late, many of them Reagan Democrats, broke in favor of Dukakis. Outside the South, this group is heavily Roman Catholic. One of the few Democratic consolations this week was that Dukakis had eked out a narrow majority (52% vs. 48%) among Catholics, who were once a pillar of the party...
...small minority of pessimists, but Bush captured 61% of the optimists and 58% of the middle group. And Ronald Reagan had coattails: of the 53% who approved of the job the President is doing, 86% voted for Bush. The Vice President also got a tremendous boost from his ! resume. Those who counted experience as the most important factor in their choice backed Bush by an overwhelming majority, 94% to 6% in the ABC poll. ABC also found that voters rated Bush highly as being trustworthy and a strong leader...
Stempel, the leading candidate to succeed chairman Roger Smith, could be the man to engineer a turnaround at the lagging automaker. He has already given dealers and employees a much needed morale boost. -- Investors worry about debt as the bidding for RJR- Nabisco intensifies...