Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...witness firsthand the treatment managed-care patients are getting, have been especially active. Local 1199 of the National Health and Human Service Employees Union, whose members staff hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices in New York City, is starting its own health plan. The aim, says local president Dennis Rivera, is to "take for-profit out of the equation" and lower costs--not for care but for overhead and salaries. Eleanor Tilson, executive director of 1199's 320,000-member plan, makes $175,000 a year--peanuts compared with nearly any other HMO chief...
...York--Its starting rotation seems healthy, and David Cone, Kenny Rogers and Dwight Gooden are all throwing great. The team will be fine unless closer Mariano Rivera falters. It doesn't have the luxury of John Wetteland any more...
...documentary Rhyme & Reason, that "the hardest thing I ever had to overcome is really just making the transition from being a street hustling nigger to, like, a star." Friends say Wallace only rapped about violence to make enough money to leave it all behind. Says Lance Rivera, a close friend of Wallace's: "He said he wanted to move his family down to Atlanta, build them a house there and write a book...
...Reported by Sylvester Monroe and Patrick E. Cole/Los Angeles, Edward Barnes, Elaine Rivera, Jennifer Steil and Richard Zoglin/New York, Dan Goodgame and Jack E. White/Washington and Tammerlin Drummond/Atlanta
...minutes, "Rust" alternates between scenes of sheer cruelty and a type of low comedy, provided mostly by the shrieking, dull neighbor Miss Nancy (Tegan Willever), and a few familiar jokes about shouting in libraries and Geraldo Rivera. In the end, after his escape collapses just as his siblings have predicted, Brad comes close to a moral moment of truth--should he kill his mother, for all their sakes?--and Farnsworth does a good job in this scene, alternately stricken and hopeful. But the tension of the moment is dissipated in a ghostly flashback, which takes us back to the months...