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...came up with the Crimson's most inspiring match of the afternoon, bouncing back from a 6-3 first-set loss to overrun Shelburne in the second and third stanzas, 6-0, 6-2. I wasn't concentrating well in the first set." Pe recalled, "but then I felt that if I was going to lose, I would at least hit the ball...
...attempts to paint the Soviet Union as the "real" nuclear menace. The only thing more horrifying than the prospect of the United States fighting a nuclear war is the prospect of the United States starting one. Surely those games have been played out, where vastly outnumbered NATO forces are overrun in Europe and the last hope of the West is America's nuclear umbrella...
...prospective payment" system, the Government would pay hospitals set fees for 467 "diagnosis-related groups" of illnesses, based on the average cost nationally for the procedures plus a labor differential. If a hospital spent less than the amount, it could pocket the difference; if more, it would bear the overrun. Hospitals are now reimbursed for all "reasonable" charges associated with a Medicare patient. The projected savings: $1.5 billion in fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion by 1988. The Administration plan has other cost-slashing measures, including a oneyear freeze on Medicare fees paid to physicians, nominal but mandatory...
...shell, to be hung on eight giant vertical masts, will be of steel and aluminum, with translucent panels that will give the structure a traditional Japanese air. The exterior alone could cost $200 million. There was a cost overrun on an $87 million contract with British Steel for girders strong enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
...some eight centuries, the site was overrun by tropical growth, shaken by quakes and lashed by monsoon rains. Still, when the British Lieutenant Governor of Java, Thomas Raffles, rediscovered the ruins in 1814, he was sufficiently impressed to order a cleanup of the stone pyramid. The Dutch, who regained Java from the British in 1816, continued the custodial work, which culminated in a major restoration after the turn of the century, but their well-meant efforts failed to stem continuing damage from tremors and poor drainage...