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...whose words belittle his role, however, President Carter's actions show that he is one scared cookie. Federal grants that have been on hold since Carter took office have somehow miraculously appeared in the Everglades. And high-level administration officials have come to Florida bearing those gifts. In the last week, the Carter forces, headed by Boston political consultant Jack Walsh, have launched a barrage of last-minute radio spots. A small fleet of buses has been hired to move the elderly from beach to ballot box. Carter, who won here by almost 70 per cent four years...
Tufts University physicist Allan M. Cormack, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize foe medicine for his development of a sophisticated x-ray machine, said yesterday that despite the device's high cost, every major hospital ought to have...
...cost of a CAT scanner ranges from $500,000 to $750,000. Critics of the device say it is too expensive and that its use is responsible in part for the high cost of health care...
...government is partially to blame for the high cost of the machine, he said. It stopped buying CATs just as scores of new companies entered the market. These new companies went bankrupt without government patronage and the remaining companies began charging more, Rumbaugh added...
...worried about traffic and parking, "I think the real source of their antagonism lay in a sense of turf and in a deeply held though often unarticulated conviction that the area should be preserved for academic use rather than for the general public." Other observers are less kind. One high-level state source, who was party to the conflict, says a group of "Brattle St. Brahmins who think the rest of the world should defer to them" kept the pot boiling...