Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forestry, geography and regional planning. "What got me started on this," says Holling, "was the profound and striking similarities between ecological systems and the activities of man: between predators and land speculators; between animal-population growth and economic growth; between plant dispersal and the diffusion of people, ideas and money...
...Polansky tells it-and local residents generally agree-he has become known as virtually the only doctor willing to treat the poor, especially Negroes. "Even before this Medicaid," said one patient, "Dr. Polansky would treat you even if you didn't have the money." Polansky has had to keep his office open seven days a week, and to work twelve-hour days except on Tuesdays and Saturdays, when he let himself off after nine hours. As for his charges, Blue Shield itself notes that they "are not only moderate, but are below average in many significant cases." One example...
...appear exorbitant. In all, 1,050 operations were performed, with 50 or more surgeons taking part. Complicated open-heart techniques, including the implantation of artificial heart valves and pacemakers, were involved. Even so, the average cost to Medicare for each operation was roughly $380-a modest figure. All the money, said DeBakey, went to Baylor College of Medicine, which pays the surgeons' salaries...
Hinchcliffe said he hoped that the outcome of the two cases would lead quickly to settlements in other suits involving about 60 British children, whose parents desperately need money to pay for extraordinary care. Countless families are in similar straits in West Germany, which has more than 2,500 tha-lidomide-deformed children. Last week the marathon trial involving executives of Chemie Grunenthal GMBH, developers of thalidomide, droned through its 150th day. It is expected to drag on through next spring...
Whether the Big Beat is really back, or just filling in the decibels until the next musical mode comes along, many of the stars of 15 years ago are getting into the money again. A few of them...