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Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Beat Hospital Costs | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals have depicted the U.S. as a nation of knee-jerk militarists, and simultaneously have managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Making Hostility a Media Event | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...result of this disappointing encounter, I reasoned that there are two types of women who call themselves feminists: the ecumenical type, who believes in freedom of expression and the right of each woman to find dignity and fulfillment in whichever path she chooses; and the more prevalent knee-jerk feminist who is quick to condemn any woman who looks and lives differently from herself, and who is unwilling to make an effort to recognize the person behind the makeup and hairdo. This type of feminist has a close-minded and superficial approach which can border at times on censorship...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: An Odyssey | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...powerdong and efficacious Leader! Oh, as the common lilac brents in hanged aslaver, enfundus of the wapping sun, so do I gronch and toad beneath the glasp of your so blastred wanked eye, a loosome maggot nannyberry, poosant Dux, my muskled Congressman! I base, I base, and cronk the knee in volitude...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Hangover Time | 7/26/1983 | See Source »

...like to see ourselves as the Commentary of the Harvard Community. We are not knee-jerk conservatives," says Lars T. Waldorf '85, the newspaper's managing editor, adding that attacking The Crimson's editorial policy was not the Salient's raison d'etre...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Using Some Poetic Licence | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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