Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final product should be better patient care at UHS, officials say. "The person who has a doctor here is apt to find very satisfactory medical care, as opposed to the person who just uses the walk-in clinic," says Postel...
Find a niche and fill it, experts advise entrepreneurs. That is exactly what Michael Eckstein, a former health-care executive, and Ian Sharp, a computer- software designer, did. Their Physician's Alert compiles lists of people who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability and personal-injury lawsuits. Customers, primarily doctors, pay annual membership charges of $150 for access to the lists...
Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 40, pursues that analysis with a wealth of fact, interviews and occasional personal reflections, in A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America (Morrow; $17.95). The book is the product of three years of research by the author, an economist and director of the Economic Policy Council, a Manhattan-based think tank. Hewlett was increasingly struck by the income disparity between European and American women, a plight she illustrates with cold statistics. As of August 1985, Census Bureau figures show that women in the U.S. earn 64 cents for each dollar earned...
...emulsions, foams and masks that promise to give the skin a healthy, rosy glow. The healthy, rosy sales glow is expected to continue with perhaps as much as a 13% increase this year, thanks to a steadily aging population, the emphasis on a fit, natural look, and newly broadened product lines. As night cream follows day, one thing in the best-selling new prestige lines leads to another. "You don't just get a one-shot, one-bottle solution to facial problems," notes Ledes. "You develop a regime...
...markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers; it costs only $100 or less an ounce on the street, compared with $200 for California's superpotent sinsemilla...