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...believes must be reflected in a "sound" benefits system: benefits are "a highly tax-advantaged form of compensation;" benefits can be used to influence the behavior of individuals "in the broader interest of institutional objectives" and large employers such as the University can use their market power to obtain group benefits unavailable to individuals...
...from simple Mercurochrome to sophisticated cancer and heart drugs. Aspirin has been rationed to 20 pills per person per year (40 pills for Havana residents, no doubt because of urban stress). About 10% of Cuba's 10.7 million people suffer from asthma, but asthma inhalers are almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster casts for three or four years," says Dr. Julio Gomez, a pediatric surgeon at the Enrique Cabrera National Hospital, outside Havana...
...matter which of those theories is closer to the truth, Washington loses little by pursuing any diplomatic opening. As long as Kim allows the inspectors to keep track of the fuel rods, he cannot secretly process them to obtain plutonium for more bombs. But there is a tricky time element in this approach. The rods are still highly radioactive and cannot safely be reprocessed for a month or so. If theory No. 2 is correct, that downtime allows Kim to make many generous promises for the next few weeks, then rescind them as he chooses -- perhaps including his proposal last...
Some of her fans would pay just about anything to see Barbra Streisand live in concert this summer. But only a few can afford to pay what it takes -- as much as $1,000 to obtain a ticket with a face value of $350 for a seat down front at arenas like Anaheim Pond and Madison Square Garden. When the New York Rangers, who haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1940, looked like they would finally do it on home ice last Thursday night, scalpers outside the Garden on game night were asking as much...
After Watergate and Abscam, the FBI sting operation that sent seven members of Congress to prison by 1981 for taking bribes to obtain various favors, Congress acted several times to clean up its practices. But each reform opened up fresh avenues of opportunity. New limits on political contributions from individuals led to the rise of political-action committees, which flooded Congress with money on behalf of organized special interests. "The system itself has become a form of legalized corruption," complains Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobbying group Common Cause...