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...course, in the pay-any-price world of escalating health-care costs, even the most careful of HMO budget projections can quite unexpectedly boomerang. Last year, for example, the total operating budget for the Boston-based Harvard Community Health Plan was $65 million. But an unanticipated midyear spurt in hospital admissions, combined with higher than expected rate increases for services by the hospitals, wound up producing a cost overrun of $4.9 million for the plan. The Harvard HMO was forced to boost its premium 18% over last year's level. About a half-dozen other HMOs around the country...
...Bullets who eliminated New Jersey, 2-0, in their mini-series, led, 52-50, at halftime, but were put away by a third-quarter Boston spurt. The teams will meet again Wednesday night at Boston Garden in Game Two of the series...
Sweet as it was, the spurt was short-lived. With five minutes left in the quarter. Princeton reasserted control, capping an impressive pass sequence at the Crimson goal mouth with an Alex Dwyer score to reassert Tiger control. From that point on, Crimson shots never found the goal. Harvard tallied only one goal in the final period-and-a-half...
...into its stations because Arco will be passing on its administrative savings to customers. The company says that it will be able to slash gasoline prices by as much as 30 per gal. in the coming weeks as a result of abandoning credit cards. If Arco's sales spurt as its prices dip, other companies will probably follow the lead and hasten the demise of gasoline credit cards. Any station owners who look around their back lots are unlikely to find the signs that were discarded half a century ago. Those read: CASH AND CARRY...
...team, led by Dr. William F. Crowley, assistant professor of medicine, found that injections of an altered version of a chemical found naturally in the human body stopped early puberty. The natural hormone, Gonadatropic Releasing Hormone (GnRH) initiates sexual development, bone hardening, and a sudden final growth spurt...