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...financially. If residents die within a short time without receiving much nursing care, they do not get full value from their entry fees. Because of this potential unfairness, many communities offer at least partial refunds to the families of the deceased. At North Hill, an upscale community in Needham, Mass., entry fees start at an unusually high $102,000 for a studio and run up to $251,000 for a three-bedroom apartment. But members or their heirs receive a 90% refund of the payment upon death or departure. Says Elinor Kirkby, 80, who paid...
...Chief of Staff Howard Baker has recruited a new cast of presidential lieutenants, with the final key players falling into place late last week. The Baker team at first blush seems a shrewd mixture of Capitol Hill veterans, longtime personal aides and alumni of Reagan's first term who collectively cover the ideological spectrum from pragmatism to hard-right conservatism. In short, Baker has done his best to recreate the catalytic chemistry of the original troika...
...Reagan in the first term, and alone among Baker's assistants he retains close ties to the President's Old Guard, especially Deaver and longtime Political Adviser Stuart Spencer. Joining Duberstein will be Thomas Griscom, 37, who served as Baker's garrulous press secretary and alter ego on Capitol Hill. Griscom delayed returning to a lucrative public-relations job to assist his former boss during the transition period, and has apparently been persuaded to stay on in a position still to be determined, probably as a mixture of communications director and Baker strategist...
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis was a long-distance runner before it was cool, finishing the Boston Marathon as a high school senior in 1951. His political career had its own Heartbreak Hill, a devastating primary defeat when he first sought re-election as Governor in 1978. But Dukakis hit his stride with a comeback victory in 1982, and since then has compiled a record of achievement from welfare reform to tax reduction that has earned him a laurel wreath as one of the best Governors in the country. Last week Dukakis embarked on the most grueling endurance race of them...
...Francisco, T.L.C. (for tender loving care) Suites on Nob Hill provides so many perks and useful items that its guests hardly need to leave the suite to hold meetings with colleagues, entertain clients and relax after hours. Each den has reference books and a desk filled with such basic work materials as tape, scissors, stapler and an electric pencil sharpener. A small library of movies and music is tucked into a cabinet with a VCR and compact- disc player. The T.L.C. suites also have kitchens with dishwashers and well- stocked refrigerators...