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...about 80%. One reason is the advance of medical technology, which has increased the number of procedures that can be performed on an outpatient basis. Another spur to health-care competition has been the dramatic efforts by insurance companies, employers and Government health-care programs, notably Medicare, to rein in runaway medical costs by encouraging shorter hospital stays. The Government, for example, now generally reimburses hospitals based on a flat rate for a given illness, rather than allowing the hospital to set the price...
...better part of a year, President Jose Sarney of Brazil has taken a hard line on economic policy. His current goal: to combat runaway consumer spending, which threatens to boost imports and weaken Brazil's trade balance. To rein in the boom, Sarney last month raised taxes and increased prices on consumer items. Since then, labor leaders have demonstrated against Sarney, but the President has stood firm...
...past, the Review has more seriously advocated controversial positions ranging from the rein-statement of the Indian as Dartmouth's official mascot, to the installment of a core curriculum...
...White House, Frank Carlucci, thepresident's newly appointed national securityadviser, said he will have direct access to theOval Office and has free rein to shake up thestaff and operation of the White House NationalSecurity Council...
...Washington, as in nature, every action tends to elicit an opposite reaction; but unlike nature, political reactions may not be equal. Already there are reports that legislation is being readied to rein in the NSC advisor and his staff. One idea is to prohibit their carrying out covert operations; another would be to require that the NSC advisor and possibly his top aides be made subject to Senate confirmation and make themselves available for congressional hearings, requirements from which they have been exempt as members of the White House staff...