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...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 are experiencing similar difficulties. On balance, however, periodic jumps in HMO premiums seem far preferable to the relentless annual cost accelerations that nonmembers by the millions seem doomed to endure...
Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Daniel Aaron, a lecturer in English 70. "American Literature from the Beginning through the Early Twentieth Century"--a course known for its insurmountable reading list and its professors who casually mention an extra half-dozen books on a related subject--rattled off these books for summer...
...survey results to the board. HRE officials in fact encourage members of the union to seek redress for any grievances against Harvard at the rent board or in court. So HTU Coordinator Michael Turk went to the board to present the survey findings on May 13, along with a half-dozen or so union members...
...tenants at 8 Pympton St. Although the official tally, according to the rent board's clerk, was 4-1, the five members never took a formal roll call vote, and two members, as is their custom, sat through the session with their backs three-quarters turned to the half-dozen citizens in the room...
...cardboarded stereotypes--are simply four losers who keep ending up on each other's doorsteps like stray cats. Danelo (Craig Wasson). The son of Yugoslay immigrants toys with writing poetry and playing the clarinet; Tom (Jim Metzler) provides the he-man silent type, meaning he has only a half-dozen lines; David (Michael Huddleston) is the chubby, balding Jewish son of an undertaker who inherits the business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic--she has more personality than...