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Richard Kusserow is a new kind of gumshoe. He is the master datatective of the Reagan Administration. Soon after becoming inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services in 1981, Kusserow decided to crack down on fraud. The new boss directed that the agency's mammoth IBM computer system be used to compare a list of everyone on the Social Security rolls with a compilation of every Medicare recipient known to have died. The project uncovered 8,000 dead people to whom Social Security checks were still being mailed, like clockwork, once a month. In some cases...
Conversely, the government could decide to crack down hard on the protesters. That possibility became more than idle speculation Friday night during a six-minute television address by Prime Minister Lee Han Key. Warning that "violent and illegal activities will not gain genuine democratic development desired by all citizens," Lee added, "Should it become impossible to restore law-and-order through ((self-restraint)) alone, it would be inevitable for the government to make an extraordinary decision." He did not elaborate, nor did he need to. An "extraordinary decision" could only mean emergency government powers, perhaps even martial...
...month-old son Nathaniel are hard. "There's an enormous tug at your heart come the end of the day," she says, "because there's this little person you want to see, and who wants to see you." One plus about a tug at the heart: it beats a crack of the whip as an incentive to get the job done and get home...
When a vacancy occurs in a small, wooden house owned by the University, for instance, HRE has offered Harvard faculty members first crack at purchasing the property. If no professor makes a bid after four weeks of notification, the house is offered to tenants and then placed on the open market. So far, of the 17 sold, no more than 50 percent have gone to faculty members--and some of those have been resold already...
When it became popular two years ago, crack, an inexpensive, smokable form of cocaine, revolutionized the drug trade. Now dealers have introduced a new marketing approach: crack pills. New York City police discovered the tablets during a raid last month. Sold with names like Press or PF (for performance) and still meant to be smoked in a pipe, the pills encourage brand loyalty and thus help pushers develop a clientele. What especially disturbs police is that anyone who comes across the aspirin-shaped pill may mistake it for a headache remedy and swallow...