Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil. But in a country racked by nationalistic growing pains, it has an asset far more important than size. Most U.S.-backed companies in Brazil are wholly-owned subsidiaries, and their top executive ranks are closed to Brazilians. Willys is only 49% owned by the U.S.'s Kaiser Corp. The remaining 51% of its stock is held by 48,000 Brazilians and Managing Director Pearce answers to an operating committee of five Brazilians and four Americans. Result is that while other U.S. subsidiaries are plagued by expropriation threats and nagged by gringo-baiters, Willys booms unmolested. Last year...
There is practically no reservation at all in the approval of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield, who founded Kaiser-style group practice in the California desert in 1933. Dr. Garfield was responsible for the health of construction workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct. His earliest plan covered only on-the-job injuries, but soon it was extended to all illnesses and injuries. At Grand Coulee Dam and in Kaiser's World War II shipyards, Dr. Garfield broadened his plan to cover workers' families as well. Modern Medikaiser is based on his early experience...
...their best when everything they do is overseen and may be reviewed by their colleagues; patients, on the other hand, go to their doctor sooner when there is no "barrier of cost." This makes possible the most rewarding practice of all: preventive medicine. To provide the personal touch, Kaiser subscribers are given a reasonably long list from which to select a general practitioner or internist to serve as their family physician. Some keep the same family doctor for years; on his referral, they get treatment from a specialist in the group. To help subscribers make appointments painlessly. Kaiser medical offices...
...Named for a creek in Santa Clara County where Kaiser built his first cement plant...
...member of the minority, feels the force of his enemy at school when his classmates shun him. His mother's love is powerless to help, his father is resigned. But a fable he is told gives him insight into his enemy. It tells of Germany's Kaiser, who was presented with some elks by the Czar of Russia and tried to duplicate their natural habitat. But they all died, because they missed the stimulation of the wolves who had preyed on them...