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...biggest obstacle - no surprise - was cost, cited by 74% of the hospitals that hadn't gone digital. A small hospital might have to spend a few million dollars to buy and install new technology; a large one could require hundreds of millions. And more than 30% of hospitals had doubts about ever getting a return on that investment. The government's bailout money helps, but $19 billion divided among just the 3,000 hospitals that answered the survey would mean a little more than $6 million apiece - plenty for some, not nearly enough for others. (See the most common hospital...
...rules should ease financial pressures and make races much closer. From this season the cost of engines sold to independent teams will be slashed by half and in-season car-testing has been banned. Further changes are set for 2010; proposals set out this month by the FIA, world motor sport's governing body, would see teams handed greater technical freedom in exchange for limiting their budgets to just $44 million. Spend more and teams would face tighter technical restrictions...
Though the digitization project has come under fire for its cost and possible privacy breeches, colleagues and interest groups applauded Blumenthal’s selection...
...Spanish through a translator at the meeting that he was laid off on Mar. 13 from a job he had held for five years. His unemployment has left him without health insurance, he said, and as a result, surgery to correct his wife’s blindness will now cost...
...replied Reagan. Within a year, 5,000 "Just Say No" clubs had formed around the country, with Soleli Moon Frye, (Punky Brewster) as honorary chairperson. The Los Angeles Police Department's 1983 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) school lecture program, grew into a national phenomenon that, by 2003, cost $230 million and involved 50,000 police officers. Partnership for a Drug-Free America launched a similarly memorable campaign in 1987 with an abrasive television ad featuring a hot skillet, a raw egg, and the phrase, "This is your brain on drugs...