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...call the Caesarean section rate issue quite separate from other gynecologic complaints. Any discussion of delivery techniques inevitably becomes tied to the national debate on the subject. BWH's Dr. Ryan, for instance, has worked on a National Institute of Health task force on the topic and sent a memo to his staff in July 1981 expressing concern that BWH's section rate was too high. He recommended a long-term review independent of specific complaints Last spring, while the review was still pending and shortly after the Joint Committee filed its grievance. Ryan took what be called the "extraordinary...
...primary section rate is too high, and I count on all your efforts either to bring it down or prove it is justified. "Ryan stated in a memo to his staff...
...Berte, who was briefly employed by a market-research firm serving the studio as well as other clients. Hirschfield retaliated by inviting other corporations to buy a major interest in the studio, among them Philip Morris and Time Inc. When the search failed, he refused to retract a sulfurous memo aimed at fellow Board Member Matty Rosenhaus. The Geritol magnate's reaction: " 'You're a liar! A liar! A liar!' he screamed at Hirschfield, his face flushed, spittle spewing from his mouth...
...request, while adding some $900 million for social welfare, including $211 million for a jobs program for the elderly, $217 million for student grants and $175 million for educational aid for disadvantaged children and the handicapped. During his August vacation at the ranch in California, Reagan received a memo from White House aides recommending he turn down the appropriations bill. The study also warned that it was unlikely his veto could be sustained, at least in the House. Despite similar forecasts from G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill, Reagan decided to reject the measure. "This bill would bust the budget...
...opposite way; professionalism, if you like. Pay the college athletes straight out and abandon this pretense of amateurism. As a memo drafted by the American Council on Education--a Washington-based higher education group--observed. "A paramount advantage of this...option is that it confronts the hypocrisy of the present-system and puts big-time programs on an honest and straightforward basis." True enough, yet not only would such a professionalism never come around, but it also seems a bastardization of what we seek from our institutions of higher learning...