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...unresolved issue in the Continental case is whether the company could legally slash labor costs through bankruptcy, since its real intention was to cut its work force and get employees to accept lower salaries rather than simply to shield itself from creditors. A company filing bankruptcy has, in some circumstances, had to prove conclusively that it was in imminent danger of collapse to get out of its union contract obligations...
Perhaps the greatest concern is that hospitals that are unable to turn a profit under Medicare guidelines will shift their costs to patients covered by private insurers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas have already headed off that possibility by establishing their own statewide prospective payment plans, to begin in January. Other private insurers are expected to follow suit...
...corporate involvement in South Africa. Before I began my own term on the ACSR, I tended to give the Corporation the benefit of the doubt when it came to the moral sincerity of its South African policy. When cynics suggested that the Corporation used the ACSR merely as a shield against student discontent I responded, with a Philosophy's concentrator's confidence in moral debate, that if the ACSR's facts and arguments were good enough they would have a significant effect on the Corporation's policy. My time on the ACSR has taught me a new lesson
...American medical care, many insurance organizations have begun offering incentives to patients who choose nonhospital surgery. "Anything we can do to keep people out of the hospital is a move in the right direction," says Larry Rodriggs, a spokesman for Blue Cross of California. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana last year began offering subscribers a new policy that would require outpatient care for 125 types of elective surgery, unless the patient could show that hospitalization was essential. Minnesota's Blue Cross and Blue Shield has a similar policy, and others are following suit. Medicare has also encouraged...
...from surreptitious nuclear explosions outside the U.S. Though these orbital watchdogs have identified only a few suspicious events, they have accidentally uncovered a major astronomical mystery: violent outbursts of energy, in the form of X rays and gamma rays, that are observable only above the earth's atmospheric shield. Such puzzling "highenergy transients," as scientists call them, rarely last more than ten seconds, yet they pack a wallop as great as a billion billion one-megaton H-bombs.* What could possibly cause such implausibly powerful explosions far out in space...