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...cost of the heart: $9,050, plus $7,400 for the drive system. But Clark's equipment was donated by the manufacturer, Kolff Medical, Inc., and his doctors waived their fees. Had Clark done well enough to leave the hospital, he probably would have spent $2,700 to equip his home with ramps, wall outlets for air and other fittings. Then there was the hospital bill. At the time of Clark's death, it exceeded a whopping $200,000, to be paid by donations and U.M.C. endowment funds...
Apartheid cannot survive without investment from the West. As most of the international community cuts its ties with South Africa. Pretoria is becoming increasingly desperate for foreign capital and technology. A few multinational corporations equip South Africa with the technology necessary for both a streamlined economy and an efficient police state. American corporations bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange, sustaining South Africa's delicate balance of payments, and allowing the regime to buy still more weapons and manufactured goods from abroad...
...tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item appears in the catalogue under the heading Dreams...
...think that is demonstrably up true," he said. "The very responsible thing that the students have done in organizing this course is to demonstrate over the coming weeks that there are large numbers of highly qualified minority law professors and legally trained individuals who can come here and equip themselves very well in teaching...
When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...