Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prosecutor Thomas Norman had argued that White was guilty of cold-blooded executions. He had asked the jury to send White to the gas chamber under California's new death penalty, which can be imposed for multiple killings or for murdering a government official in retaliation for his public acts. The prosecution recounted that White had resigned his seat on the city's board of supervisors, changed his mind, and asked for his seat back. After White learned that Moscone was going to give it to a political rival instead, White went to the mayor's office...
...number of hospitals are already making efforts to keep a sharper eye on costs. At California's Long Beach Community Hospital, staff doctors meet at least four times a year for what they call "economic rounds," studying patients' bills to make sure they are not padded. At one such meeting a few weeks ago, a slide of a bill was projected on a screen. A tumor specialist quickly asked why the hospital had ordered two computerized blood tests when one?the cheaper one, at that?would have sufficed. In a very different cost-cutting program, New York University Medical Center...
...heart operation, doctors generally agree that expensive technology is used much more often than it needs to be, again because no one is watching costs. For instance, hospitals scramble to buy the fanciest equipment available. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano charges that hospitals in Southern California contain enough CAT scanners to serve the entire Western...
Says Dr. Noel Thompson of Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in California: "The doctor who does something to the patient?sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture?receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer...
Cauthen went to England after a disastrous winter riding bad horses in California. "I love it here," he says. "Each track has got a history to it, and the people are crazy about racing." Later this year he plans to ride in Japan, and he talks of returning to the U.S. for a while and then going back to Europe, where the teen-ager from Kentucky already feels like a man of the world...