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This is important to the crisis swirling around Doc Bowen, the first physician to command the Department of Health and Human Services, for he is now prescribing Government action against the havoc caused by catastrophic illness. Specifically, Bowen has proposed that by charging Medicare beneficiaries an extra $4.92 each month, the Medicare program could pay all hospital and doctor bills above...
...Marine Corps confirmed that North was indeed hospitalized voluntarily between Dec. 16, 1974, and Jan. 7, 1975. That would be shortly after then Captain North, 31, returned to the U.S. from a brief tour in command of a Marine company on Okinawa. The Corps would not disclose the diagnosis; it referred all such questions to North, and these days the former NSC aide is not responding to any queries about anything. The Marines' statement did say North had been pronounced "fit for duty" on discharge, and "a review of ((his)) medical record . . . has failed to show any reason...
...such events shock us, they are also somehow expected, as if the world were at once in supreme command of itself and superstitious: "I knew that something like this would happen." Perhaps the fact that we are relatively new to the prospect of nuclear war gives us both solid and shaky ground. That fear of annihilation must seem preposterous to you, who either have neutralized it or live with weapons that make our missiles seem like Gatling guns, or both. Congratulations...
...more single-mindedly for a toy than do some 800 manufacturers and distributors for a share of that market. At Mattel, the second largest toy company, with sales of just over $l billion, guards patrol the R&D building in Hawthorne, Calif., as if it were a Strategic Air Command base. Understandably. A successful new product can mean buckets of the stuff that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader, with...
Mary Jo Bane, who left the Kennedy School to take the job of deputy commissioner of the New York state department of social services in 1984, received the tenure offer one year later. Her New York position put her second in command of a budget of $16 billion that covered the New York's welfare, medicare programs and more...