Word: metropolitanism
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...brand-name companies face a broad-based movement toward generics. Some 26 states mandate the use of generic drugs, whenever possible, in Medicaid programs. Several insurance companies, including Aetna, Metropolitan, Prudential and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, have notified health-care policyholders that they will be reimbursed for 100% of the cost of generic drugs but only 80% of the price of brand-name pills. Moreover, many drugstore chains are pushing low-priced generics. Walgreens, with 947 outlets in 30 states and Puerto Rico, says that when one of its pharmacists receives a prescription marked "no substitution," he is to call...
...local calling, one must deal with New England Telephone. They offer metropolitan service, which takes in 44 exchanges in the Boston area at $16.75 a month for a touch-tone dial tone and $16.15 a month for a rotary-set dial tone. For contiguous service--access to Cambridge and all the cities that border on Cambridge--studdents pay $11.20 for touch-tone at d $10.60 for rotary...
...better off than the rural poor. It is essential to increase rural productivity through land reform and technology. Otherwise, attempts to improve our population centers will further widen the urban-rural gap and lead to even higher migration into cities, thus nullifying whatever improvements are made in those metropolitan areas...
...Hell is a city much like London," Shelley once wrote. "A populous and smoky city. . ./Small justice shown, and still less pity." The London that impressed him in 1819 as a metropolitan inferno had just over 1 million inhabitants, hardly more than today's Bronx. Yet though London has swollen tenfold since then, it has been overtaken by still faster-growing hells: not only Mexico City but Cairo, Calcutta, Shanghai and others. By the end of the century, according to the U.N., at least 22 cities will have populations of more than 10 million, and 60 will have more...
...fashioned class warfare. Many of her own Tory backbenchers remain restive over the government's performance. And earlier this month, in a rare act of defiance, the House of Lords threw out Thatcher's plan to cancel elections in the country's Labor Party-dominated metropolitan area councils, which she is intent on abolishing...