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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt defeated Wendell Willkie for the presidency in 1940, the loser visited F.D.R. in the White House and asked bluntly why the President kept on as his closest aide such a controversial figure as Harry Hopkins. Roosevelt told Willkie that if he were ever to become President, "You'll be looking through that door and knowing that practically everybody who walks through it wants something out of you. You'll learn what a lonely job this is, and you'll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except...
...installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...
...tropics. Since dogs are about equally popular in both the North and South of the U.S., some questioners of the Cook-Dowling research have asked how dogs can have anything to do with the human disease. Bowling's answer: In the warmer South, dogs are less often kept indoors as house pets, but are left to roam more freely outside than in the cooler North...
...routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible into the film, Director Crichton used live actors for the bodies. He could only keep them dangling from wires for a few minutes, which was just fine with Bujold. Says she: "It kept things from getting too eerie...
Starting next January all Blue Cross groups will be required to cast a prosecuting attorney's eye on hospital records to detect abuses and outright fraud. Records will also be screened to determine such things as whether the medical treatment given was necessary and whether the patient was kept in bed longer than required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital...