Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges had been filed yesterday. But state trooper Mark Ford old the Associated Press that the investigation is ongoing and charges could be filed later...
McLaughlin was driving a family-owned Isuzu Trooper, with Konik in the front passenger seat, when the vehicle collided head-on with a Ford Explorer, according to a well-placed source who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...million factory in Alabama that will build a muscly growler it calls an aav, or all-activities vehicle, with a vip price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble on its big wheels, with two gas tanks, chrome air horns, jaunty rust spots and revolving yellow cab light...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...
...Betty Ford Center president John Schwarzlose says it is routine to receive a call from the patient's managed-care company after five to eight days. Is the patient ambulatory? they want to know. Is he or she doing better? Then the struggle begins. Some companies refuse to divulge their benefit criteria, which also vary from plan to plan and state to state. "Our physicians talk to their physicians," says Schwarzlose. "Then we call the patient in to see our financial counselors," because, increasingly, the insurer's response to continuing inpatient addiction treatment, he explains, is to "just...