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...typical plan, doctors can provide the most advanced-and expensive-tests and treatment programs available. Afterward, the patient can count on receiving automatic reimbursement of up to 75% or more of the charges. Says Kenneth Abramowitz, a health-care industry analyst for the New York investment banking firm of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "Everyone perceives the system to be, in effect, free. All the incentives are to provide very high-quality service at a very high cost...
...debt load to nearly $2 billion. After both the housing and the retailing businesses unexpectedly went into a simultaneous slump last year, Wickes ran up huge losses that could exceed $80 million. Chairman E.L. McNeely last month resigned under pressure from the company's lenders. A new boss, Sanford Sigoloff, who specializes in reviving ailing firms, was brought in to sell off assets and pay back some of the loans...
...topic debaters," he explains, "tend to despise on-topic, because most of us were on-topic in high school. I was, for a year and a half. It's very, very intense." Burned out at 18, they seek refuge in the unruly rumble of off-topic. "Sometimes," says Sanford Cohen, an off-topic Columbia junior, "it's pure theater...
...expectations. They sing the original Italian libretto, for instance, and tend to roll about the floor in odd formation--but their capacity to charm and delight is endless. All five are top-flight performers: well-suited vocally for Handel's soft, delicate arias, and passionate and convincing as actors. Sanford Sylvan reveres every syllable he sings as Orlando, and his gentle descent into madness (represented as the planet Mars in this production) is mesmerizing. Janet Brown's rendition of the queen/deb Angelica's melancholy reflection on false hopes is another high-point: sweetly sung but bitterly felt...
...seen as just what the thrifts needed. But now that rates are falling, many S and Ls are not much better off. The declines are too small, come too late, and will probably not last long enough to help institutions already seriously endangered. Says David Levine, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "Rates have not dropped far enough to save the industry...