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Insurance companies have responded by jacking up premium costs, which are passed along to patients in the form of higher doctor bills and hospital charges. By January the Argonaut Insurance Co., one of the nation's largest malpractice insurers, put doctors in a fighting mood by drastically raising rates. For example, the average annual premiums for high-risk specialists in California soared from $5,377 to $22,704. But the worst was still to come. This spring Argonaut and other companies sought yet another round of increases in some states and announced plans to dump malpractice coverage entirely...
...lived in the best of all possible worlds. Last week, however, life began looking better still after Faberge offered Margaux a contract: if she would help advertise a new fragrance, which does not yet have a name, the perfume people would pay her $1 million. "This could be the largest single package ever offered to a model," said Richard Barrie, executive vice president of Faberge. "We are very pleased," said the hamburger heir solemnly. "Yippee! Skippee!" rejoiced Margaux, who suddenly found herself with a pretty face and a nice round figure besides...
...city blackboard jungle but suburban Evanston Township High School on Chicago's elm-shaded, affluent North Shore. For years the high school has been known as one of the best in the nation, and it still earns that reputation. The current senior class has nine Merit Scholars, the largest number in the school's 92-year history. Evanston's innovative curriculum offers 260 courses and programs; the campus includes a planetarium and television studio...
What has digested 50 million pieces of paper, chewed on 500 witnesses and has 38 legs? Answer: the rival teams of lawyers appearing in court to argue the Government's mammoth IBM antitrust suit. The largest such case ever to go to trial in the U.S. finally got under way in a New York federal district court last week, even bringing the usually officebound IBM chairman Frank T. Gary in to watch the opening session. Already, critics contend that the main thing the trial will prove is that the antitrust laws have become so complex to enforce...
...Israeli Ministry of Police. While describing his work at the Weizmann Institute, Shtrikman complained that each of the diamonds he was using in his experiments produced a unique pattern when a beam of light was reflected from it onto a screen. Aware that Israel is the world's largest exporter of cut diamonds, Kaplan suggested that the patterns might be used to identify individual gems...