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Hospitals expect neither to profit nor to lose from the increased patient load...
According to Johnson, participation in the program has at least quadrupled in the last two-and-a-half years. "We have been able to alleviate some of the fears of the large debt load felt by the students going into public service fields," Johnson says...
...work: "a series of reflections--of the world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted in a capricious parody of pictorial richness. A load of modernist signs for sensual delight--thick, ropy color that invokes the transparency of water, spots and scribbles betokening light, bits of Matisse interiors, Dufy ports, Bonnard trees, Monet ponds--is dumped on the eye and offered for identification as quotes. Bartlett's studio was one of the places where...
...Schultze and other board members argued that the personal debt load is not as heavy as it appears. Schultze explained that in calculating consumer debt, the Government includes credit-card purchases, which account for some 20% of the total. Yet many consumers pay their monthly bills immediately, before incurring any interest charges. Said Schultze: "That really shouldn't be counted as debt. They are using their cards for convenience...
...safety experts, who had no firsthand information, pointed to the weather: ice had formed on other planes at Gander that night, and some pilots had taken deicing precautions. Captain John Griffin of the doomed aircraft had not. Other experts noted that the 90-ton aircraft, packed to capacity and loaded with more than 60 tons of fuel, may have been approaching its maximum load for a safe takeoff...