Word: reached
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...facilities, where the poor could receive affordable outpatient care. Yet 70% of the $6 billion spent each year on state-run mental health programs still goes to institutions. A greater proportion must go to promoting neighborhood clinics and group homes. What is more, the operators of these clinics must reach out aggressively to get people off the streets, especially in cold weather. They must trek to the parks, bus depots and other places where the homeless congregate to persuade them of the need for health care...
Long before I reach Arizona, I leave Highway I-10 and bump along ranch roads that bring the border back into view. In Columbus, N. Mex., which the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raided in 1916, John Alcorn, 69, gestures in the direction of the border. "Had 16 teeth out and a new set of dentures made over in Palomas last week," he says, massaging his gums. "Would have cost me $2,000 in the U.S. I paid $600 over there, and the dentist did a damn good job." Health care is a relatively new economic trade-off, but the principles...
...energy prices will help the industrial countries keep inflation in check. A $5 per bbl. drop in the price of oil typically translates into a 1% fall in U.S. consumer prices. Economists are predicting that U.S. inflation could reach 5% next year, vs. an estimated 4.5% for 1988. But if oil drops below $12 per bbl., says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, inflation could ease slightly instead of rising...
...There is agreement" that Eason is not at full strength, he added in a telephone interview from his California office. "I would expect that we would reach a consensus on his state of readiness to perform in the game...
...think it's a very fair contract," he said. "Not that we'll ever be able to pay good teachers what they're worth, but I think we were able to reach a mutually satisfying agreement...