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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicians are a powerful force in politics when they act in concert. And Massachusetts is loaded with them--13,970 practicing doctors according to the American Medical Association's latest count. It's not surprising that the system has exploded here...
...troubles are spread unevenly across a profession so diffuse that no completely accurate membership count exists. The Public Accounting Report, a leading trade journal, estimates that there are upwards of 34,000 accounting firms in the U.S., ranging from one-person shops to partnerships employing hundreds of C.P.A.s. But the problems afflicting the industry have adhered most dramatically to the so-called Big Eight of the profession: the firms that audit more than 90% of the financial statements of the FORTUNE 500 largest industrial corporations and rake in nearly 40% of the accounting industry's annual revenues of about...
...more than a talking paper. But the voices belong to some powerful investors. "Management is going to have to pay a lot more attention to us," asserts New York's Goldin. Massachusetts Investment Chief Paul Quirk, a council member, agrees. Says he: "In takeovers, management could always count on our vote. Now that has all changed...
...what would an attack on any or all of these targets actually do to combat terrorism? That is the essential question. If the Reagan Administration does hit Libya, the most it can count on is silent and grudging acquiescence from most of its allies and more vocal but still guarded approval from Congress--and that assumes the fighting is over quickly with no heavy loss of American lives. Heartier approval would follow only if the attack seemed likely to bring about a sizable decline in terrorist outrages...
...situation got so bad that left fielder Steve Pacheco battled to a full count in the seventh, fouled off a couple of pitches, but then remained standing at the plate long after ball four breezed by. It took Pacheco 15 seconds of staring at Crimson hurler Greg Ubert to realize that he had earned a free pass and could leave the batters...