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...years CBS was first in the ratings and looked as if it would be there forever. Then, in 1976-77, upstart ABC pulled ahead, where it stayed for three seasons. CBS retrieved the top spot by a fraction in 1980, and last week, with the final figures in for this season, it was undisputed champ again, with a Nielsen rating of 19.8, compared with ABC's 18.2 and NBC's 16.6. CBS had eight series in the top ten, leading off with Dallas and 60 Minutes, ABC had two, and poor NBC none at all. Even...
...order or two of magnitude greater than time spent, talking to the patient, examing the patient, counselling the patient or staying up with a sick patient at a hospital. These kinds of personal services that require a lot more time and no less skill are reimbursed at a fraction of the rate of the technical procedures...The insures, the government, and the bureaucrats are much more impressed by a procedure. If you bill a patient and say I'm charging you $50 because I spent an hour with you, talking to you and examing you the patient...
Relman: The facts are the facts. They are not a matter of opinion. I think it is true that now that AMA has a smaller regular full-dues-paying membership and a smaller fraction of the total practicing population of American doctors than a few decades ago...It's posing a real problem because if the AMA wants to speak for American medicine, it has to be able to demonstrate that it represents at least a majority and right new it does not...Now what is this due to?...The first and most obvious reason why the AMA is having...
...cost of fixing U.S. bridges could run as high as $33 billion, but states and cities can spend just a small fraction of that amount. Federal aid for bridge repairs is only $1.3 billion this year. Admits Daniel Mines, an engineer for the State of Michigan: "Bridges are falling down faster than we can rebuild them...
...During the night, the bodies settled. A hand would adjust, by a fraction, causing another's head to turn slightly. Features imperceptibly altered. 'The trembling of the sleeping night,' Pushkin called it; only he was referring to the settling of a house...