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Sherman Holcombe, the recently-reinstated shop steward of the Radcliffe dining halls to whom Harvard granted a three-month leave of absence Tuesday, said yesterday his lawyer is now trying to initiate negotiations to shorten the leave to one month...
...they see as the slow pace of reform in U.S. medicine, and increasingly militant about what they consider their own exploitation. They have also become extremely skeptical of organized medicine's promises, usually extracted under the threat of a strike or job action, to improve patient care or shorten the 100-hour weeks that house physicians sometimes work. "Goodwill arrangements and personal promises are swell," says P.N.H.A. Executive Director Steve Diamond, "but they have about the same value as a no-return beer bottle. Written contracts have proved to be the only way we can guarantee compliance...
...particularly when it comes to tie breakers. This year Forest Hills has dropped the sudden-death tie breaker, but the replacement, a twelve-point tie breaker in which the winner must beat his opponent by two points, could go on even longer than the set it is supposed to shorten...
...cancel coverage for 27,000 of the state's physicians and 48 hospitals on July 1 (the company was denied a 196.8% rate hike last December), Governor Hugh Carey has proposed a three-part relief package. The Governor's plan would create a state insurance fund, shorten the statute of limitations on malpractice suits, and make it easier to discipline doctors who make avoidable errors. California's state senate has passed and sent along to the legislature's lower house emergency, or "Band-Aid" bills to guarantee malpractice coverage through the end of the year. Bills...
...price increase and the worldwide recession that it helped cause. Even if oil consumption picks up smartly in the future, the prospects are that more oil will travel in "handy-sized" tankers of 30,000 to 100,000 tons. The Suez Canal, if and when it is reopened, will shorten runs from the Persian Gulf to Europe by 4,800 miles, but the canal will not be able to accommodate the giants...