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...white-thatched, patrician-looking Chicago attorney was asked for legal help by the family of one of the survivors. Within 24 hours, Corboy had filed the first lawsuit to come out of the disaster. Since then, he has received calls from twelve other people involved in the crash. His fee, if he wins: as much as one-third of the damages...
...costs have risen, the past decade has seen an explosion in prepaid, "managed" care. More than half of all physicians work in some kind of group practice, most commonly a health-maintenance organization. Patients pay a flat annual fee in exchange for care that is provided by HMO member doctors. As private corporations, many HMOs can be quite profitable -- so long as their patients do not get too sick. The number of patients enrolled in HMOs has doubled in the past five years, to 32 million, often at the urging of cost- conscious employers. The goals: efficiency through greater competition...
When undergraduate attendance at the Summer School dropped in the 1970s, the program began a policy of open admissions. Anyone who applies--and who can pay the $975 fee for each course--may attend summer classes...
...multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads, possibly send company employees to the launching site and have its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing driver...
...turned out, Jacobson's source was right. Watt had received a $300,000 consulting fee from Siegel for making eight telephone calls and holding a 30- minute meeting with HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce to ease the way for the project. Siegel claims she does not recall talking with Jacobson in 1987. "You think I'm going to risk five, six or seven hundred thousand dollars talking to somebody on the Baltimore ((Evening)) Sun?" asks the developer today. Local housing officials, curious about Watt's involvement, were cheering Jacobson along. "I wanted her to find the facts," says Maryland community-development...