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Boyce will probably start on the mound tomorrow--a thankless proposition. So far this year he has started two games, has absorbed the corresponding two loses, but has a surprisingly in-sight 3.60 earned run average...
...surface, the job would seem to offer only a vast and thankless chore. The three will be responsible for making payments to and supervising the performance of hospitals providing medicare services worth some $3.5 billion the first year. In return, the intermediaries will get only their administrative expenses. Still, there are some hidden assets. Insurance companies are planning supplemental policies to provide a host of benefits-hospitalization beyond 90 days, post-hospital drug expenses, etc.-not available under medicare. By their direct access to some 18 million persons eligible for medicare, the intermediaries will have the inside track on such...
...Thankless Task...
...this very personalized brand of politics, the challenger faces a formidable--and probably thankless--task of campaigning. If he ever expects to win, he will usually have to spend one race just getting himself known, and then the next two years solidifying the personal ties he has made. Still, he may leave a weak and politically worthless impression: "George is a nice guy, and I'd like to give 'em my number one, but--has been a good councillor, and besides which, he got cousin...
...meantime, the conservationist has the often thankless task of discovering and denouncing ugliness and despoliation, and the not infrequent joy of victories won. For there now is proof that industrial progress and natural beauty can exist side by side...