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...People get tired of seeing the same paper two or three times," he says. Paper sales greatly diminish at the end of each month when issues have been in circulation for some time. According to Goldfinger, many of the people who purchase the paper at the end of each month do so out of the kindness of their own hear; and he does not want charity to be the driving force behind Spare Change...
Your report "Teaching Hospitals in Crisis" correctly presents the situation faced by the nation's hospitals [MEDICINE, July 17]. In the midst of their economic struggle for survival, Congress has proposed reducing the growth of Medicare payments for patient care. While such a blow would diminish the financial strength of all hospitals, teaching hospitals could face the knockout punch of additional targeted reductions in Medicare's support for their medical-education activities. The triple whammy of the competitive marketplace, reduced Medicare reimbursements and significantly decreased federal support for medical education and research could force teaching hospitals to abandon their academic...
Asian Americans, however, could shoot as high as 35.4% system-wide and 54% at Berkeley. ''Berkeley will be 92% or 93% white and Asian,'' predicts Bob Laird, admissions director at the Berkeley campus. ''The lack of diversity will diminish the education of all the students who remain at Berkeley...
...photo of Yeltsin, has little else to go on. Russian television today simply showed Yeltsin receiving a bunch of flowers inside the Central Clinical Hospital, then his motorcade speeding away through the hospital gate.Yeltsin apparently has a form of heart diseasecalled unstable angina, in which arteries narrow and diminish the blood supply to the heart...
...Party leader by a vote of 218 to 89 over challenger John Redwood. Major wasted no time in reshuffling his Cabinet to reward loyalists from the center and the left of his party. At issue: Britain's future role in the European Union, which Conservative "Euro-skeptics'' fear will diminish their country's independence. Analysts say the real winner in the leadership contest was the Labour Party--now enjoying a nearly 30-point lead in polls and gaining strength for the general election, which must take place by spring...