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...president of Blue Cross, announced that its 69 member-plans had agreed on a new program of cost containment for the benefit of their 84 million subscribers. What it amounts to is a kind of watchdogging on doctors and hospitals, with the threat of withheld insurance payments, and a carrot-and-stick incentive plan...
...Fernwood, Ohio, the home town of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the studio of WZAZ-TV is almost painfully tacky. Guests sit on a tattered pea-green sofa, plumped with lavender pillows held together by safety pins. In front of them are gumdrops, a plate of carrot slices and celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese...
...find they are losing students because they do not offer them merit-based scholarships. Nonetheless, the Ivy schools should reaffirm their policy of offering need-based aid only: there is not so much scholarship money available to those who need it that it can be used as a carrot for wealthier students without adversely altering the composition of the student body...
There is no carrot with the stick. All I see ahead is an endless road of escalating prices against nonescalating income, with vast uncertainty about a better future for our children and theirs. I don't mind pulling in my belt, but I need more incentive than their mere survival...
...rate of some 300,000 copies a year. Adults often complain that Beatrix Potter's minibooks have grown archaic and irrelevant. Children know better; for them there will always be some chamber of the mind where it is 1902 and where, if a stick awaits, so does a carrot at the end of a long day's mischief...