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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of reimbursement of hospitals for costly procedures is dealt with differently in many states, and while there are some national guidelines for such underwriters as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, there remains a gray area between "established," or reimbursable procedures, and those which are still "experimental" and therefore not funded by insurance. Fineberg has proposed that procedures such as heart and liver transplants, which today fall somewhere between the two traditional categories, be given a label of their own--he calls it "investigational." Whether or not and to what degree these oprations would be underwritten, and how they would receive...
...other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting to see how they are dealt with outside the shouting matches of a competition for office...
Historical records also show that for thousands of years people believed that, since ferns flowered but did not set visible seeds, they had supernatual powers. Even Shakespeare wrote that Oberon, King of the Fairies in A Midsummer's Night Dream, used these invisible seeds to make himself invisible and dealt harshly with those who wished to share his secret...
...Punjab and overseas made the mistake of rejoicing openly at Mrs. Gandhi's demise. The Sikhs were understandably angry over the storming of the Golden Temple and the continuing presence of troops in Punjab, though it is not easy to see how the central government might otherwise have dealt with an insurrection that was getting out of hand. But in the incendiary atmosphere that followed the assassination last week, the Sikh leaders should have known that such talk could have dangerous consequences...
...kind of attitude by the entire financial community could have a powerful effect. Says Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City and the commission's chairman: "Without the ability to freely utilize its ill-gotten gains, the underworld will have been dealt a crippling blow. Money laundering is the lifeblood of organized crime...