Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odds, the 2,600 citizens of Cooperstown. N.Y., ought to be getting some of the worst health care in the nation. Every statistic shows that rural medicine lags far behind what is available in urban areas. Good city hospitals lure the best doctors from nearby medical schools; they get the most research money, clinical practice and high-fee patients. But Cooperstown, a dairy-and poultry-farming community 200 miles northwest of New York City, is a remarkable exception. Reason: it has the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, a mini-medical center that ranks among the best...
...years. Hunter, guide, marsh warden, bird advisory officer, conservationist, naturalist and lecturer, he is a legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge and the sexy whistle of the gray plover...
...procedure, it entails an unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...
...town owes much of its character to its stable ethnic mix. South Milwaukee is an enclave of Germans, Poles and Armenians, the descendants of the families that flocked to jobs in the factories built there in the 1890s. In an era when changing opportunities frequently lure the young away from home, three or four generations of the same family often live in South Milwaukee's modest but well-kept one-and two-story homes. The town has only one bowling alley and a single movie theater (recent features: Blow-Up and Count Yorga, Vampire). In the 52 barrooms, where...
Astute Financing. As a social critic of the phone company, Lawyer Johnson has a plausible-sounding but debatable case. Though charges for local service have risen considerably, A.T. & T. has reduced long-distance rates nine times in the past decade. To lure off-hours traffic, the company offers bargain rates after 5 p.m. Johnson missed the mark by a wide margin when he also accused A.T. & T. of financial blunders. He complained that, to raise the huge sums that it needs, the company had diluted shareholders' equity by depending too much on issuing new stock and too little...