Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
...education is still the unwanted bureaucratic child, roaming up and down Independence and Constitution Avenues in search of a permanent roosting place. By the end of the month, Congress may send a law establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign the bill, take his bows and verbally grant education a new lease on life. If the legislation's proponents think the battle to establish the department has been long and hard, they had better remember that their fight has only just begun
...Egyptian officials appear happy with Strauss's appointment, if only because they are convinced that he will have Carter's ear. The Egyptians expect the autonomy talks to be long, difficult and tedious; the appointment of a superambassador with political clout is regarded as a sure sign of Washington's commitment to the peace process...
Even if patients object to violations of their privacy, they cannot prevent them since hospitals and insurance companies commonly insist that patients sign "any and all" release forms as a precondition of treatment. These give the institutions virtually a free hand to distribute information from a patient's files. Nor do the limited restrictions that exist provide much assurance of secrecy. Information can often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient...
...larger scale, one of the most promising alternatives to the traditional medical system is group-practice health maintenance organizations, which hire doctors to work on salary rather than charging fees for specific services, and sign up hospitals to take on their patients. A customer joining an H.M.O. pays a set monthly fee?$47 for individuals, $116 for families in the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston. That fee entitles the subscriber and his family to any medical services they may need, from a routine physical exam to open-heart surgery...