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Heart disease continues to decline but still tops the list of the 15 leading killers, a group that causes 89% of all American deaths. Cancer, at No. 2, is on the upswing as a cause of death. Fatalities from cerebrovascular disease, accidents, motor-vehicle collisions and chronic pulmonary disease are falling. Suicide leaped up the list from No. 10 to No. 8, principally because two ailments once ahead of it, chronic liver disease and atherosclerosis, continued to drop...
...chaos that the Sandinista economic measures have spread is one reason for the shortages that have allowed sardonic Nicaraguans to dub Managua "the capital of queues." So far as the Sandinistas are concerned, the problem is simply being called "distribution," meaning a chronic short supply of operating buses and trucks in the country due to a lack of imported spare parts. The government blames that shortage on the U.S. for leading a campaign to cut off Nicaragua's international credit at a time when the country is staggering beneath an estimated $3 billion in foreign debt...
...high level of nursing care." Under the new Medicare laws, hospitals would be reimbursed the same amount for both patients. Categorizing each patient into a single DRG may also present problems. Patients over 75, points out Gerontologist Laurence Rubenstein of U.C.L.A., "have an average of eight to ten chronic health problems." Rubenstein and others also worry lest patients be sent home prematurely, only to return under another DRG. This, he says, would cost the Government more than if patients had been thoroughly cared for during their initial stay...
UMass began installing detectors in 1978, before the law was passed, but in the first year with the new detectors several dorms had chronic false alarms, David J. Beaudin, UMass's senior fire inspector, said last weak. There continue to be three or four false alarms each week, he added...
...wrought such psychological pandemonium and so thoroughly destroyed social as well as financial confidence that it still stands as the classic inflation of modern times. As such it remains a nightmarish symbol of a problem that has become perhaps the most persistent one haunting modern economies. Though the chronic inflations that bedevil the industrial West have never spiraled so totally out of control, the German mega-inflation nonetheless serves as a constant warning...