Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's budget proposals as champions of ordinary passed vigilant against Reagan's "hatchet job on several programs." Sadly, it seems that the message heard resoundingly at the polls only a month ago has been lost on everyone but the President. We can only hope he stands fast in the months to come on his pledge to millions of hard-working Americans to restrain the growth of federal spending, even in the face of overwhelming "conventional wisdom" in the little world of Washington that "it just can't be done...
Schroeder's joviality and fast recovery astound his doctors...
...sight of William Schroeder joking with his family last week was the best possible advertisement not just for the miracles of science but for Humana, the investor-owned medical conglomerate. In the fast-growing U.S. health care industry, investor-owned companies are challenging nonprofit organizations and community hospitals for a greater share of the nearly $1 billion-a-day business. Profitmaking companies now own or manage more than 20% of all U.S. hospitals, double the percentage of five years ago. Moreover, they are moving rapidly into affiliated areas such as health maintenance organizations, satellite clinics and surgical-equipment firms...
...Humana launched an insurance plan for companies as a way of boosting business in its hospitals. Humana Care Plus guarantees employers that their medical costs will rise no faster than the Consumer Price Index for at least four years. Health care prices are currently rising more than twice as fast as the CPI. Employees enrolled in the insurance plan can use any hospital, but the deductibles they pay will be lowest if they choose a Humana facility. More than 200 companies and organizations have enrolled about 65,000 people in the program...
...loneliness of a largely unoccupied dug out; the careworn faces of the managers; the vast summer skies that arch over the diamond, shading imperceptibly to dusk behind the light towers. Baseball, as The New Yorker's Roger Angell notes in his graceful text, is not as fast a game as television coverage makes it seem. With its qualities of silence and waiting, it "invites us really to go slow, for a change, almost to stop, in order to reflect on what is before us and what is to come." So does this clothbound hall of fame...