Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clubby and litigious world of medicine, doctors have been reluctant to finger incompetent colleagues. A high-court decision last week is likely to make them even shyer. The case, closely tracked by the medical community, involved Surgeon Timothy Patrick. In 1981 a peer-review panel was considering ending his privileges at the only hospital in Astoria, Ore., on the grounds of substandard patient care. Patrick resigned and sued the doctors in a rival practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve...
...Brady panel recommended drastic reform that would have curbed Chicago's latitude. Last week, however, a White House working group on the crash delivered a quite different report, one that essentially exonerated the futures markets. The group, which included Treasury Secretary James Baker and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, recommended only one significant safeguard: a so-called circuit breaker that would interrupt trading in most U.S. financial markets for one hour if the Dow fell 250 points from the | previous day's close and for two hours if it dropped 400 points. In congressional testimony later in the week, Greenspan...
...other prime source of discord is the recommendation by the Brady panel that all financial trading should be supervised by one federal regulatory body, instead of two separate ones. Currently, the Securities and Exchange Commission oversees the stock markets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates the exchanges that deal in stock-index futures. "Having split regulators contributes to the confusion," contends Peter Buchanan, chief executive of Wall Street's First Boston investment firm...
...even more striking feature of the Olympus is its "auto zooming portrait mode." The user simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in the viewfinder. "If you want to take portraits of people at a party," says David Willard, a senior vice president at Olympus, "the camera will automatically zoom to give you same- size shots of everyone...
...Michael Barrett (D-Cambridge), the chief sponsor of the bill, praised the committee's swift action on the measure, coming two weeks after the panel received it, compared to the four-and-one-half months the committee held it last year...