Word: mcmahons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas McMahon...
...other small craft at the public dock, and it would have been a simple task for a terrorist to slip through the shadows and plant a bomb on it. That apparently is what happened. Police last week charged two men from the Irish Republic, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, with Mountbatten's murder. In a strange twist of circumstance, both men had been detained two hours before the bomb on Mountbatten's boat went off, at a routine roadside checkpoint 70 miles away, on suspicion of driving a stolen car. At the police station, a check...
...Zimmer? Bill Lee? Ed McMahon...
John Alexander McMahon, president of the American Hospital Association, calls the proposal so horribly complex that it would be "unworkable." Actually, a few of the bill's supporters, including Senator Kennedy, agree that there is a problem. Kennedy's subcommittee on health last week modified the Carter plan by increasing the voluntary limit to 10.9%, more carefully defining the conditions under which a hospital could be exempt from mandatory controls, and setting Dec. 31, 1984, as the date when controls would end, unless Congress acted to extend them...
...McMahon argues that Carter's bill would create "a huge bureaucracy to do something that is already being done voluntarily." He notes that hospitals have cut their rising costs from 15.6% in 1977 to 12.8% last year. Michael Bromberg also protests that it is unfair to single out hospitals when such industries as food and housing contribute more to inflation...