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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The culprit behind the country closings is the same one that has put some urban hospitals out of business: the 1983 congressional decision to switch Medicare to the so-called Diagnosis Related Groups system, which eliminated the old fee-for-service plan. Under the current rules, the Government pays set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Don't Break a Leg in Texas | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Stern may be right, but the larger truth is that the candidates trivialized their campaigns in order to meet the demands of commercial TV news. The past had taught them that although a candidate might deliver a thoughtful speech, if he tripped and fell as he left the stage, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Made-for-TV Campaign | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

He argues that the companies manipulate the government into weakening the phrasing of the warning labels on cigarette packs, waging over the past decades a winning battle to eliminate the words "death" and "addiction" from package covers. Later White says that the cigarette companies often work for legislation that benefits...

Author: By Katherina E. Bliss, | Title: Smoking's Not Just Bad for You, It's Good for Them | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

Graham lost September's Democratic primary to Thompson by 49 votes. Her district, the 28th Middlesex, covers central Cambridge, including Peabody Terrace, Mather, Dunster, Adams and Leverett Houses, and the freshman Union dorms.

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Thompson Pledges Accessibilty | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

The referendum says "there shall be no further generation of electric power by commerical nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth by means which result in the production of nuclear waste." Although the question covers all nuclear plants, the only ones that exist now are obsolete and dangerous; Question 4 protects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes on Question Four | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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