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...difference between the Harvard Plan and conventional health insurance programs is that we combine the financing mechanism and the delivery system. We don't separate the two. We provide more services on an ambulatory basis. People who have the Harvard Plan don't have to worry about heavy out-of-pocket costs," Biblo said...
Cambridge's Third District Court has a fairly good reputation for being just and humane--even from the days of the old training schools. Cambridge judges have used restitution liberally--the idea of employing a youthful offender to pay back the out-of-pocket costs to the victim--in recent years...
...contrast, the Olympic crew seem like wholly admirable free spirits - and the match is not a fair one. Joe Santo is a connoisseur of cut glass, an accomplished fiddle player and something of an out-of-pocket philosopher. "I don't believe in getting too comfortable," he tells Craig. "Stay hungry...
...reservoir of talents the elderly have accumulated during their lives. It has approved $45 million for a variety of projects, including the Foster Grandparent Program, which pays oldsters for supervising dependent and neglected youngsters; $17.5 million for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), which pays out-of-pocket expenses to 100,000 involved in such community activities as entertaining the handicapped and visiting homebound patients; and a skimpy $400,000 for the Senior Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), which reimburses some 4,500 retired executives for expenses incurred while counseling small businesses and community organizations...
...based on current prices and projected growth in demand, the nation's out-of-pocket expenditures for foreign oil might reach $17 billion annually v. $8 billion this year. That staggering annual outflow of dollars for oil is not inevitable, however. As Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz said at Nassau: "We must struggle against these projections so that they do not become accurate predictions." Another projection shows that between now and 1980 the oil-producing nations of the Middle East and North Africa alone stand to collect a quarter-trillion dollars for their natural riches, nearly...