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...When I came here, which was shortly before Dr. Rosenthal, UHS was not paying much attention to cost containment because they had not been forced to," says Dr. Sidney Wanzer, the director of the UHS satellite clinic at Harvard Law School. "The University had picked up the slack and subsidized UHS for the deficit...
...Western Europe, killing hundreds. Minor pollution and no casualties were reported at Tomsk-7, which lies 1,800 miles east of Moscow and produced, until recently, lethal plutonium for nuclear weapons. Environmental groups, which claim that the Tomsk incident was more serious than reported and blame it on slack safety standards, are calling for Russia to stop producing plutonium altogether. President Boris Yeltsin has called instead for unspecified stronger controls and the inspection of all nuclear facilities...
...vocal, well-heeled bands of extremists. And they never conceived of presidents who would play such political games with decisions that were specifically intended to be apolitical. And they never in their worst nightmares thought the American people would try to force the federal judiciary to take up the slack borne of their own disinterest in democracy...
...just come off a 12-hr. shift at the local Monsanto chemical plant -- but he too seemed in high spirits. He arrived at the same complex that morning to pay a neurology bill for the treatment of his older daughter's headaches. "He was just fine," says receptionist Dee Slack, who told him that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward the site of a planned pro-life demonstration in front of the clinic...
...neither safety nor response time is compromised, the only remaining reason for refusing the services of Safety Walk seems one of comfort. Since the inception of Safety Walk, the driving escort has logged significantly fewer requests for rides, but the slack has not been entirely taken up by Safety Walk. Perhaps some of the people no longer calling were those who used the driving escort as a free taxi service--some callers have responded to the driving escort dispatches with the following rejoinders: "I'm not wearing the right shoes," "I'm not wearing a coat...