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...doctor at Cambridge Hospital said recently, the neighborhood health clinics, with their decentralized locations, personal atmospheres and emphasis on low-cost health maintenance, are places where those who believe in socialized medicine can gain a foothold...
...metaphor for American society. The Harold Gibbons chapter that closes the book brings this out even more than the stories of the two rank'n'filer Teamsters. Gibbons was a socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food co-op, his retirees with low-cost subsidized housing, St. Louis with mass transit, and who even supported busing to help eliminate segregated schools before the 1954 Supreme Court decision. And Gibbons supported McGovern in 1972 against the Teamster tide for Nixon. But he backed down when it came to challenging Hoffa or Fitzsimmons for union...
Kucinich's symbol is the city's 64-year-old Municipal Light Plant (Muny Light), which provides low-cost electricity to thousands of Cleveland users. Although the plant is plagued with maintenance problems and must now buy its power from the area's commercial power company, Cleveland Electric Illuminating (CEI), Kucinich believes he can make the system profitable again. The city's creditors feel that Muny is too great a drain on city resources and should be sold to CEI. However, Kucinich refuses to sell, charging that CEI and the banks are conspiring to play politics with the city finances...
...June, contracts between 150,000 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and apparel manufacturers will expire. New demands will be modest and wage increases will be tied to productivity gains. The union is well aware that its industry is threatened by low-cost imports, particularly from the Third World...
Barnes's decision follows a series of rulings in recent years that have giver lawyers, engineers, druggists and optometrists the right to advertise. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1977 to allow lawyers to advertise has led to the development of numerous low-cost legal clinics...