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...timing of the court's decision was particularly bad because Playboy is now seeking to obtain an ongoing license for its new $150 million casino in Atlantic City. Said Steven Eisenberg, an analyst with Wall Street's Bear, Stearns & Co.: "We can assume that it would be very difficult for New Jersey to grant a license if the company loses its appeal in the United Kingdom." The future of Playboy could hang on the two decisions concerning its gambling operations...
...state Pound Seizure Law allows medical research institutions to obtain pound animals for use in experimentation. Under provisions of the law, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) retains inspection rights of all animal research...
...squeeze would not be Solidarity and its group of radical leaders but the Polish Communists, who have so far failed to rein in the unruly union. Says Georges Mink, an expert on Poland for the Paris-based Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: "If the Soviet Union wants to obtain a more conciliatory attitude from the government and make it easier for the hard-liners in the infighting, then the economy is a logical weapon...
...world (except for the most imperial and ostentatious) has ever had the luxury of rattling around in. Even the American poor fall victim to a bizarre profligacy. Neolithic villagers periodically burned down their huts to incinerate their vermin; in the South Bronx people burn out their own apartments to obtain the welfare moving allowance, or landlords torch their buildings for the insurance: life among the ruins. Americans who feel sorry for themselves about their housing, middle-class Americans at least, have not explored the alternatives on the down side of civilization. Anyway, ideals of privacy, cleanliness, spaciousness and a certain...
Medicaid. Federal funding for health-care programs will be sliced by 3%, or $500 million, in fiscal 1982. In Missouri, officials have cut back on the number of prescriptions a person can obtain, set standard reimbursement rates for various medical operations, and refused to pay for weekend hospital admissions except in emergencies. Faced with a $51 million shortfall, Illinois is requiring welfare recipients to chip in a dollar for every doctor visit or pharmacy order. Explains Budget Director Robert Mandeville: "This will cause folks to think twice." 1982, this program will be cut by $1.1 billion. Nearly all states will...