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Meanwhile, Morton's clinic has become a model for rural health care, reducing hospitalization for the disorders to one-tenth their historic rates. The Amish and Mennonites who use the clinic do not buy medical insurance or subscribe to Medicare, but instead depend on family and community for help. Says Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General: "Holmes Morton has forced his way into the hearts of the Amish people and, based on that trust, has accomplished a remarkable service...
...weapons and supply target data must first be bypassed for a missile to be launched. But the news proves another embarrassment for Rodionov, scheduled for talks Tuesday with Defense Secretary William Cohen about how to safely manage a Russian nuclear weapons system operating on only an estimated one-tenth the necessary funds...
...University, Operation Smile International and Sinn Fein, didn't know the source of the donations. "I simply decided I had enough money," Feeney (who doesn't own a car or a house) told the New York Times. Don't worry, he's not broke. He kept $5 million--about one-tenth of 1% of what he gave away...
...state where everybody seems to know everybody else, dry seasons and bankrupt farmlands in the 1980s explain why North Dakota's population is less now than it was in 1930. Its land yields about one-tenth of the U.S. wheat supply, and agriculture makes up about half of its economy. North Dakota tends to send Republicans to Bismarck and Democrats to Washington, has no voter registration, one of the lowest divorce rates in the nation, and only one clinic that performs abortions. No wonder the state motto is, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable...
...this successful work, four of HMC's managers earned between $1 million and $3.7 million in salary and bonuses for fiscal year 1995. A fifth employee, Jonathon S. Jacobson, raked in $6.1 million for managing approximately one-tenth of Harvard's $8 billion endowment. This high level of compensation is warranted if they are necessary to maximize the return on the University's investments. President Neil L. Rudenstine, who often seems to know more about monetary affairs than any other aspect of Harvard life, defends HMC as "very cost-effective...