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More broadly, computers enable the patient to receive a health profile at far lower cost than previously possible; analyze vast amounts of blood; and, by systematizing information about the patient, cut down his hospital stay and pare both institutional and patient costs...
...creation. This centerpiece of the tax program is the most likely to be deferred. Yet Carter will probably attempt to raise taxes on income earned abroad by subsidiaries of U.S. corporations and on export earnings of companies that set up domestic international sales corporations. He may try to pare deductions for gasoline taxes, sales taxes and medical expenses. He has shown no sign yet of backing down from his effort to dry up the celebrated "three-martini" business lunch by forbidding at least part of it to be deducted...
Koch will need all the help he can get. Nearly all of the municipal union leaders vehemently opposed Koch because of his determination to reduce the work force further and his intention to pare fringe benefits. Contracts covering most of the employees expire between March 30 and June 30, and the pugnacious transit workers are first in line. Yet last week, even before the vote tally was in, local Teamster Chief Barry Feinstein was at Koch's private headquarters to pay his respects. "I anticipate a very tough year," said the man whose followers snarled the city...
...Faculty probably will consider a polished set of proposals" this winter, Rosovsky said. He added, however, that the task force will have to pare down the current draft of the plan before then because this version would increase the number of requirements students would have to fulfill...
...Broadway-bound play of the same name. Marcovicci-best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art and is now reading Herodotus and other historians. Says Andrea: "The well-to-do women had at least three handmaidens and went through elaborate preparations early in the day. They also shaved their heads...