Word: collectivities
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Medicaid is a governmental program with certain features Ronald Reagan would be expected to admire. Operating within only the broadest of federal guidelines, it permits individual states to determine who is eligible for its benefits, and lets the states decide how much doctors, hospitals and nursing homes can collect for the services they render. Georgia is one of the most tightfisted: it has stiff eligibility requirements and ranks 46th among the 50 states in Medicaid funds received annually from Washington, even though it is 13th in the population ranking of the states. Despite such frugality, Georgia expects to share...
...need: a $319 overdue utility bill and a $97 overdue water bill. "Food is so high," he says, "I just can't stay ahead." Vigil is allotted $33 a month. Each month, Jose Chavez, 72, a retired sheepherder, is driven by his granddaughter three miles in order to collect his $10 in stamps. Says she: "It helps a little, just a little...
While many other airlines have been engaging in cutthroat fare warfare for popular routes between New York and the West Coast, Delta has continued concentrating on its profitable "hub and spoke" system. The airline's planes collect passengers in outlying Southern cities, such as Macon, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., feed them into the "hub" airport at Atlanta, then send them out on longer-haul "spoke" flights to New York or Denver. Says Delta President David C. Garrett Jr.: "We are cautious, and our system is well balanced. During the winter, we make money on our North-South routes; during...
...spectrum are police and medical records. University police chief Saul L. Chafin says police files are open only to the police department's records division and departmental personnel. The files are indexed alphabetically by suspect or perpetrator's name, unless that name is unknown, so that victims do no collect police files in their own names. Even people mentioned in the files (suspects, victims and witnesses) may not read the detailed accounts of criminal incidents. Only the suspect's lawyer, through a court action, can get access. Reporters are allowed to see a bare-bones description of each crime--"Robbery...
Unfortunately, for those of you now on the edge of your seats awaiting news of certain victory I have only idle speculation and prolonged delay to offer you. You see, the women's hoop squad was to call in the story from a near-by city phone booth collect after the match en route to catching a Broadway show (Annie, for those of you who are curious...