Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's hockey team ended an encouraging first varsity season in discouraging fashion, and more glumly, in the Boston Arena, where legend has it they ask you to keep cigars lit so they can collect fire insurance...
...crippled bill, if it hobbles through Congressional committees to the floor, may even pass, because it is obsequious enough to collect votes in spite of continuing lobbying by the American Medical and Hospital Associations (AMA and AHA). Spending more than $3 million a year, those organizations put up a united front opposing mandatory controls and publicizing the hospital industry's moderately successful voluntary effort...
Since the 1930s, commercial insurance firms have reimbursed hospitals on a cost-plus basis--the more hospitals spend, the more they collect. By the '60s, slightly inflated costs caused hospital bills were to weigh heavily on families without sufficient insurance and liberal America introduced Medicaid and Medicare to ease the burden...
...will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies do not seem to know what to do. Says a Commerce Department staffer in Washington: "We have hundreds of companies that are very worried about this. They keep phoning up and asking, 'How do we collect? What are we supposed to do?'" Complains an official for Levitt Industries, a New York builder that has contracted to build $220 million in low-income housing for Iranian government workers: "Our whole project is in a state of limbo. All we have is a lot of signed papers...
...process called plasmapheresis. In it, blood is drawn from a donor, the plasma is extracted, and the red blood cells (which carry oxygen and are given to surgical patients to make up for their blood losses) are infused back into the donor. By contrast, most European blood centers simply collect the whole blood and separate the plasma and red cells. Because they use more plasma than red cells, they routinely throw away thousands of red-cell units each year...