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...committee also considered the possibility of making the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance premium optional for undergraduates. That proposal was submitted to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life for further study...
...about 1% less than last year. But since many crops were in oversupply last year, prices were down. This year, by contrast, the market belongs to the farmer. Tobacco auctioneers in North Carolina, where the crop was kept short by the weather, are being forced to ration tobacco at premium prices among customers; in effect the auctions, though performed for custom's sake, are a sham. In California an early frost scared buyers of grapes into believing that the crop might be sparse. Actually, the cold weather did only spotty damage, but in some cases prices were...
...back much of their $2 billion investment. They can mix light whiskey into regular blended whiskies, so long as they do not call them "light." Says William J. Marshall, president of the Bourbon Institute: "The distillers can use light whiskey instead of grain alcohol to smooth out the premium blends and put on a label saying that the product is four years...
...Brown-Forman's Frost 8/80, Publicker's White Duck, Seagram's Four Roses Premium, and Barton...
...with some 90 hospitals. The new contracts must include 34 cost-control guidelines that he proposed. For example, hospitals now have to buy generic drugs instead of more expensive name-brand drugs. In Blue Cross's defense, Denenberg notes that the system returns 96? in benefits for every premium dollar, compared with 53? to 58? on the dollar for most nongroup health companies. For that reason, Denenberg has proposed giving Blue Cross and other group systems a statewide health insurance monopoly. He has also blasted doctors for performing unnecessary hysterectomies: "They have got everybody's tonsils...