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...growing number of patients in need of minor surgery, the overnight stay in a hospital room, the wobbly-kneed walk down a long, sterile corridor, and, most important, the enormous bill after ward, are things of the past. About 150 outpatient surgical centers around the country now offer fast opera tions in a relaxed environment at a fraction of hospital prices...
...building. Their lives are often almost unbearably constricted. They commute two, three or four hours a day to work from claustrophobia-inducing apartments out in suburban regions that look like an interminable Bridgeport smudging into the outskirts of Albuquerque. Some 75% of the population lives in the narrow Pacific corridor from Tokyo to Hiroshima. Land prices are impossibly high (more than $100 per sq. ft. in suburban Tokyo). Newly married couples despair of ever owning a house (a typical two-room Tokyo apartment measuring 400 sq. ft. costs more than $83,000). The clutter of Japanese life is not only...
...Chinese side." Accordingly, the CAAC demanded consultations with the U.S. "at the earliest possible date" to select a new U.S. carrier without Taiwan connections for the China run. At the same time, the CAAC letter took more direct action, terminating Pan Am's access to an air corridor from the Burma border across southern China to Hong Kong and rescinding the airline's emergency landing right at the Canton airport as an alternative to Hong Kong...
...accuracy of his experimental opinions and predictions eventually led to a sign in his corridor pointing the way to the "Los Alamos Oracle...
...realtors to "help locate properties that are being utilized to conceal illicit drugs" by flagging the agency when dealing with customers who fit that general description. Stutman said the pusher profile was based on DEA experience. Vermont is located in the middle of the heavily traveled Montreal-Boston smuggling corridor. Says Stutman: "We need all the help...