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...microcassette the conversation she had with her killer [NATION, April 1]. But if she had been packing a handgun instead of a tape recorder, Weinstein would probably be alive today. The only way to deal with a carjacker is to shoot him. No questions asked. WILLIAM G. MAYO Tucson, Arizona...
...completed work, not much. Too many people that I have hired and fired don't work and don't deserve anything. If a job can be done with considerably fewer people, then corporate downsizing proves there are too many folks collecting paychecks they don't deserve. DALE BOOTH Tucson, Arizona...
...worry that Dole and Alexander will hit too hard at a candidate who has found a willing audience among the very voters the party needs most to carry both the presidential and the congressional elections this fall. Buchanan lost no time reminding the elders of this. In Tucson, Arizona, last Thursday, he stopped just short of declaring war on his party: "I would urge my critics and opponents to stick to issues, stick to ideas, stop the name calling because it is you who are risking the unity of this party, not I." He has promised in the past...
Welcome to rehab centers in the age of managed care. "It was like a cloudburst," admits Keith Arnold, Sierra Tucson's director of marketing. "It decimated the business. We've changed our marketing strategy and now go after the self-paying"--read rich--"client." These days, it is difficult to get in-patient coverage at all for detoxification. "The number of in-patient treatment programs has declined precipitously," says Monica Oss, editor of Open Minds, a behavioral-health-industry newsletter. "Between 1988 and 1993, the average number of patient bed days dropped from...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...