Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some physicians' incomes could also do with a little liposuction. The average thoracic surgeon last year earned $350,000 in gross income from Medicare billings -- seven times the amount taken in from that source by family doctors. Physicians' gross income from Medicare cases went up 16.3% last year alone. Employees of private industry saw a rise of less than 4% during that same period. Congress should weigh such numbers as it considers revising Medicare fee schedules. Nor are the patients blameless: Americans must come to learn that more expensive machines and elaborate procedures are not always better and that their...
...that entitlements, or government outlays for people qualified by law for financial assistance, today absorb 11% of the gross national product. Which do you consider the most egregious of them...
...this point, fears that gross financial interests may be distorting Harvard's pursuit of knowledge appear to be turning into a reality. If Harvard, which some believe to be the world's finest university, cannot protect the purity of its academic mission, who will? Unless the University can present convincing evidence that such incidents will not occur again, it is time that Harvard withdraw its individual and institutional relationships with industry...
Ostensibly, this pilgrimage to pay respects to and then bury the dead is Exley's story. In practice, the narrative evolves into a surrealistic odyssey. On his flight, Exley bumps into James Seamus Finbarr O'Twoomey, a preposterously gross Irishman with an equally incredible brogue ("Frederick, me lurverly, there you go again") who will later hold the hapless author hostage in a Pacific paradise. Also aboard is the future Mrs. Exley, a murderously sexy flight attendant named Robin...
Police apprehended the flasher June 10 and charged him with "open gross conduct and trespassing...