Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are few more abject sights than that of Congress surrendering to interest-group pressure. But even by the craven standards of Capitol Hill, it was striking when the House voted 360 to 66 last week to rescind the Medicare catastrophic health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...
...some women. About 1.6 million of the nearly 4 million women who give birth annually have no evident health problems that could jeopardize them or their babies. The panel recommended that physicians cut back -- from 13, to seven or eight -- the number of office visits typically scheduled. The group also suggested curbing some routine procedures, including blood-pressure readings, pelvic examinations and screening for protein in the urine. In addition, women do not need a Pap smear if they have had one within the past year...
That solution proved astonishingly short-lived. Within a few hours of the first transfer, new arrivals began showing up at the Prague embassy, many of them drawn by news of the safe passage of the first group. East Germany, believing that its agreement was for a once-only exodus, reacted angrily to Bonn's decision to allow more refugees into the compound...
...Ambassador Hermann Huber ordered the embassy gates closed when the refugee population had reached 5,000, then hours later, as the night turned bitterly cold, reopened them to families with children. A new round of departures was scheduled and then delayed. East German officials, moreover, insisted that the second group of trains make the trip from Prague to the West German city of Hof at night, rendering it more difficult for hitchhikers to board...
...regarded tennis team. "I had 38 cents in my Levi's when I started college," Braden says, "and 37 cents when I finished. I had to save up to make a phone call." Later, while coaching tennis at the University of Toledo, he played in professional tournaments with a group of six stars (Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez, among others) and, in Braden's words, six "donkeys," including himself and Chris Evert's father Jimmy. "The donkeys made a lot of people famous," Braden recalls. "The stars would beat us fast and then go out and see the city...