Word: meyers
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...runners and former winners like Bill Rodgers and Greg Meyer have predicted the race will lose top entrants unless it begins offering prize money or expense money...
...from projected 1986 costs. Such a reduction would immediately touch the pocketbooks of physicians who treat Medicare patients. Fair enough, perhaps, but it would also have a detrimental impact on the elderly and retired who depend on a service that would be likely to decline in quality. Says Jack Meyer of the American Enterprise Institute: "There is no immediate financial pinch. But what you get is cheapened service...
...budget also calls for an increase in the cost of Medicare premiums paid by retirees: they would rise from 25% of the total cost of medical expenses to 35% after five years. Says Meyer: "That's not a lot for the well-to-do, but for the average elderly citizen, it's substantial." States that have large pockets of the elderly, such as Florida and South Carolina, are particularly concerned about the limits the budget will also place on federal Medicaid payments, which are given only to the poor. The new plan would cap federal payments to states...
...great colleague," and his death in a substantial loss," said John R. Meyer, Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Economic Growth at the Kennedy School. "He had a constant optimism about him. He always had the feeling that there was a solution to any problem, and more often than not became up with...
...charges against Nipon are part of a 3½-year investigation of the IRS's Philadelphia office, which has already led to the indictment of six present and former Government workers. According to the indictment, Tax Agent Meyer Weiss examined Nipon's 1978 and 1979 returns and discovered that they were fraudulent. But instead of filing a report with his office, Weiss conducted a phony audit in exchange for the payoff. In November 1980, Nipon made the first of what would be four $50,000 cash payments to another IRS agent, Edmond Costantini, who served as intermediary...