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They're up industry-wide, 11.6% in the first quarter, to their highest level in 20 years. People want bigger and better RVs, says Corson, who sells everything from a $3,500 folding trailer to a $160,000 motor home the size of the Love Boat. They want AC, microwave, satellite dishes, PC stations, hydraulic slide-outs to expand room size when parked. If Coachmen could figure out how to make one with a back lawn, some Joe's going to buy the damn thing and mow it while Ethel does 65 on the interstate...
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...shortcomings, may be the only issue compelling enough to get voters to look up from their barbecue grills. Just back from his trip to China, Clinton plans this week to step up his road campaign for the measure he calls a Patients' Bill of Rights, which would offer a wide new array of protections to the more than 150 million Americans in managed care. House Republican leaders, though late to the issue, are offering a proposal identical to Clinton's in many respects. What remains to be seen is whether politicians are serious about passing a law or would just...
...different from the one government was accused of offering four years ago: a big, complicated bureaucracy. While most Americans with health insurance say they're satisfied with their coverage, 35% of those surveyed in a TIME/CNN poll complained about the growing hassle involved with their coverage, and a wide majority expressed support for such reform proposals as the right to choose one's own doctor (79%) and the right to appeal HMO decisions to a neutral third party...
...aircraft orders in a half-century and at the same time striving to change costly and outmoded corporate practices. One of those problems has been a degree of fine tuning that seems more appropriate to the world of tailoring. Boeing managers like to describe a ship like the wide-bodied 747 as "6 million parts flying in close formation," and they have long stood ready to customize them not just for every airline but for every single order. Boeing offers the 747's customers 38 different pilot clipboards, for example, and 109 shades of the color white...