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...delivery of health care services to individuals and communities is in an era great change and growth, and, as an article in Business week has stated. "The health community is putting on a business suit." Health care is the chief largest community is the United States and comprises ten percent of the gross national product. Hospital have been traditionally the major providers of health care services, but today we see, in addition, a proliferation of health maintenance organizations Walk-in Clinics, Emergency Care Centers and for-profit All these organizations have been for skilled administration...
Among its jobs are to review communication security proposals and to set overall policy on eavesdropping. The National Security Agency, which is recommending the installation of some 500,000 special telephones, is the nation's largest intelligence organization. Among its missions is to protect sensitive U.S. communications...
...took its write-off at the urging of examiners from the Comptroller of the Currency's office. The federal regulators who monitor banks and thrifts are under increasing pressure from congressional legislators who believe the watchdogs have been sleeping on the job. In August, the country's largest savings and loan company, Financial Corp. of America, required emergency federal loans after it was weakened by an unfettered growth program...
These price-cutting binges are a sign not of desperation but of acutely smart merchandising. Though Sharon is an old steel town, with a population of just 19,057 in a county with an unemployment rate of 13%, Reyers has grown to become one of the largest independent shoe stores in the U.S. It draws 1,000 to 3,000 customers a day, some coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, 75 miles away. This year, its 99th, it will record annual sales of $6 million to $8 million (vs. $355,000 for the average shoe retailer...
...novel describes. "Not only is it thoroughly possible," says Charles Lecht, chairman of Lecht Sciences Inc., a New York City software company, "but I know of several instances where it has been done." Some U.S. software houses routinely encode secret time-delay functions in the logic of their largest commercial programs before sending them to prospective clients for preview. For example, such a program might be set to self-destruct if it is run more than ten times in a row. An unscrupulous client who tries to make repeated use of the program without paying for it will suddenly find...