Word: contract
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...word, or a woman's, goes a long way in the pine-scented foothills of western Maine. In the rugged community of Farmington, pop. 7,400, where logging and farming provide seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt...
Encouraged, the hospital last May formally launched Contract for Care, a program aimed at individuals who fall just above the federal poverty level--$1,138 a month for a family of three. So far, a dozen patients have enrolled. Nancy Cameron Dickinson, 49, whose family income was less than $16,000 last year, weeded the hospital's garden beds and helped with landscaping to pay $800 she owed after Fallopian-tube surgery. Scott Smith, 29, an uninsured ski instructor, painted the ambulance bays to pay the $5,300 surgical bill he incurred after breaking his leg in a ski accident...
...into a smaller version of Moscow, with Gucci shops and bodyguards, hotels with London prices and unofficial landmarks of the new order--like the spot on Nevsky Prospekt, the city's most famous shopping street, where a top government official was gunned down last year in a highly professional contract hit. As the funeral proceeded, city streets were busy, shops and offices were open as usual and few people seemed touched by the event. "I'll catch it on the news," said Lyudmilla Petrova, a shop worker on Nevsky Prospekt. Tanya, a slender 19-year-old in a miniskirt waiting...
...homers in his rookie season in order to be present at his son's birth. After a batting slump and a divorce from his first wife, who had been a college girlfriend, he started therapy, and he has stayed with it. His three-year, $30 million contract stipulates that that his son Matthew, now 10, who is often the Cardinal bat boy, gets a seat on the team plane...
...room flat. When former Texas Ranger scout Omar Minaya spotted Sosa playing ball as a 16-year-old in 1985, Minaya recalls that the 150-lb., 5-ft. 10-in. kid, dressed in a borrowed uniform, looked both athletically promising and malnourished. Last year Sosa signed a four-year contract for $42.5 million. Beneficiaries of his generous spirit abound. His mother now resides in the third house he has bought for her, and he has purchased 250 computers for poor schools back home...