Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package included a 15-month freeze, starting July 1, 1984, on fees charged by doctors who accept Medicare payments. During that period, any doctor who increases his charges to Medicare patients could be subject to a $2,000 fine. Repeat violators could be disqualified from receiving payments from the program for up to five years...
...Mannian decadence that pervades the luxurious hotel suite--a reference to the hotel scenes in Death in Venice?--is brought forth with such powerful and unsparing force precisely because Israel peoples his film with everyman figures--the sex-starved ticket agent, the sex-starved auto mechanic the sex-starved doctor and his equally emaciated wife--and sets the action in America's backyard...
...been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after she saw the picture in Paris. It was impossible to determine whether the photo was authentic. There are reports that Sakharov has been put under the care of a Soviet doctor who specializes in "artificial nutrition." The treatment is said to involve a technique that is used with patients who cannot swallow because they have throat cancer. Regardless of his health, Sakharov is an increasingly troublesome issue for the Soviets. Summed up his stepson Alexei Semyonov in Washington last week: "Sakharov...
...severe economic problems. They are not caused by the IMF or IMF programs. They are partly the result of past mistakes, partly the result of world recession, partly the result of high interest rates in the industrial countries. The IMF gets the blame. It's like blaming the doctor because the patient is sick...
Schwartz shamelessly takes ideas from friends' experiences. Says the writer: "It's easier to find new friends "than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week...