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...Predicts A.H.A. President Alex Mc-Mahon: "Hospitals may tend to specialize in the services they perform most efficiently." In areas where there are too many maternity beds, for example, some hospitals may drop their obstetrics units. Hospitals that lose money on such complicated procedures as open-heart surgery may refer cardiac patients elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Putting Lids on Medicare Costs | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...coordination part of the "Grand Experiment," as the professors refer to it, all the first-year classes--Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property, and Torts--deal with the legal ramifications of acts and omissions...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Law School Experiment Uses 140 'Guinea Pigs' | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws"-this is a demeaning term used only by whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...States allow the U.S. to enjoy a constant advantage over the only non-NATO deep water navy in the world--the Soviet Navy. At no time during my cruise were we unaware of the crushing predominance of the United States; sailors told me that many of the Caribbean islanders refer to America as the "Northern Colossus...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Cruise Control | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

Days later I visited "a big brigade" in the province of Hubei that was beginning to refer to itself, not as a brigade but, again, as a cun, a village. The brigade chief, a bald-headed veteran Communist, explained once more that peasants could now decide on their own crops and routines. "Responsibility" made them care about the harvest. Then, as an afterthought, he added, "It is not only the attention of the farmer that helps. He now uses his own organic material, also the organic material of the chickens and buffaloes to enrich his fields." I read very precisely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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