Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoards the loot in anticipation of inflated prices as the holidays approach. Occasionally the bargaining is tense, as it was last Christmas when she unloaded two microwave ovens and a camera for nearly $1,000. "The first thing people say to you is, 'It didn't cost you nothing.' That makes...
...cost of the ten most expensive undergraduate schools in the U.S., including tuition, fees, room and board...
...this tale. He has shot the movie in summery, impressionistic colors that well evoke the end of imperial Russia. His comic vignettes about the early days of his country's film industry are reminiscent of old-time Hollywood lore, right down to the portrayal of temperamental screenwriters and cost-conscious producers. Slave even has a character who is a Russian equivalent of American Silent-Era Star John Gilbert: a dashing leading man whose speaking voice is disconcertingly high-pitched...
...entering its fourth year, the experiment seeks to correct those inequities at a reasonable cost. Each network may consist of several hospitals and cover a population area with tens of thousands of births a year. Each also has one or more fully staffed and equipped regional perinatal centers, complete with neonatal intensive care units for very tiny and very weak infants. The key to the system's success is to identify and treat women, while they are still pregnant, who are likely to have preemies or sickly babies, rather than rushing the problem infants to the centers after birth...
Though regionalization saves lives, a newborn's stay in an intensive care unit can run into tens of thousands of dollars. Balanced against this is the nearly $1 million it can cost over a lifetime to support a child handicapped in birth, or the in calculable emotional toll on the family with a dead baby. Declares the director of the Ohio network, Cleveland's Dr. Irwin Merkatz: "Regionalization is the cheapest new advance in medicine that we've ever...