Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
...recent study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) indicated that an investment in prenatal care for those who cannot afford it would save hundreds of infant lives, prevent hundreds more from being born with low birthweight, and avoid thousands of dollars in neonatal care expenditures. Prenatal care pays for itself four times over...
...Murdoch revamp, stories are shorter, pictures more plentiful and the fluff content higher, with a proliferation of one-page features on such hot topics as "Geraldo's Compromising Tattoo." The magazine has added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example...
...years. "Unfortunately, there aren't many monks qualified as nuclear engineers who want to become an Assistant Secretary," says Chase Untermeyer, director of the office of presidential personnel. Mark Abramson, director of the Center for Excellence in Government, says top jobs are going begging because of "low pay, anxiety over postemployment restrictions and the feeling that high Government service is life in a fishbowl...
...Seattle the economy is already sparking along. Area joblessness is 4.6%, a 20-year low; major employer Boeing is operating at an all-time high percentage of capacity; and hundreds of thousands of new residents have moved in during the past few years. Downtown, a state convention center, a shopping mall and underground bus tunnels are under construction. The area has been so torn up that some residents refer to it as "little Beirut...