Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis. Even after a long day, Dukakis insisted on screening them before they could run, just as he had approved every other spot the campaign aired. An incredulous Austin shook his head at Dukakis' micromanagement. But one of the ads, a Japan-bashing spot featuring the Nipponese flag, helped close the gap in Ohio...
With 40% of its total billings coming from Medicare, Mission Valley, with annual revenues of more than $1 million, began losing between $29,000 and ; $50,000 a year. Faced with anticipated losses this year of $250,000, the board of trustees had no choice but to close down. Says former administrator James Oliverson: "The days of the John Wayne hospital, that rugged little place out on the plains, are over...
Around the country, St. Ignatius' plight has become a familiar one. For rural hospitals, dwindling federal money is often far more damaging than it is for more visible inner-city 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...
Texas, where small rural hospitals account for nearly half the state's 530 nonfederal health-care facilities, has been especially hard hit. Sixty-three hospitals have had to close in the past five years, 34 of them in rural areas. Now 49 of Texas' 254 counties are without a hospital; at least 13 do not even have a doctor. Referring to the loss of the recently shuttered Bastrop hospital, outside Austin, board member Susan Cartelli groans, "Now Friday- night football games at the high school can be a nightmare...
...Johnson would have been pleased by the public's ability to resist high-powered persuasion. The insurance industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure a recount. But Proposition 19, which proposed a 25 cents tax on cigarettes to fund medical research and education, passed, despite the tobacco industry's $16 million campaign to defeat...