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...home. Six hundred thousand veterans, by VA estimate, will be suffering from Alzheimer's and other severely dementing conditions by the year 2000. Yet the VA and state veterans homes today can provide fewer than 40,000 nursing-home beds. "The demand for long-term care is going to skyrocket over the next five to 15 years," observes VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Kenneth Kizer, who estimates that in the year 2010, 1.6 million vets will be 85 or older. "If you don't have the money, you can't provide the service...
...combination of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, the pleasant weather of the fall season and the annual surge of college-shopping high school students causes the number of tours to skyrocket every fall...
...down in countless layers of red tape? Pasquale's concern for the life of the 1992 Cable Television Act seems to be questionable. He is scared that if cable and telephone companies (whose only motivation is profit) are given the goahead and begin to blend their services, rates will skyrocket, and the consumer will be caught in a flood of childish, "profit-driven" television programs created by "corporate interests...
...grants are denied to deserving students and as individual loan debts skyrocket, millions of students will no longer be able to go to college," Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 said in a statement last week...
...researchers at the Food and Drug Administration, estrogen prescriptions in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 1992. About a quarter of U.S. women at or past menopause -- roughly 10 million -- take the hormone, making estrogen a billion-dollar business. As baby boomers approach menopause, those numbers will skyrocket...