Word: paying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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There were few black faces on the big screen back in the 1940s, when young Morgan Freeman collected soda bottles to pay his way into the local movie matinee. And the one or two who did appear made the young moviegoer squirm. He did not object to their playing servants, jobs his own parents had occasionally held, but it bothered him that these celluloid domestics were presented as empty caricatures, devoid of human dignity. "I didn't know anybody who acted like that," recalls Freeman...
Rumania is potentially a prosperous country, but Ceausescu's compulsion to pay off a $10 billion foreign debt led him to sell most of the country's oil and food production abroad and ration everything at home. Last week supplies his regime had hoarded for export -- and for the old communist elite -- were rushed into empty stores, and shoppers were dazzled to find meat, oranges, coffee and chocolate, the kind of goods that had not been available to them for years...
...same time, Durenberger was drumming up speaking engagements in Boston to coincide with visits there to a marriage counselor, so he would not have to pay for the trips out of his pocket. Although these arrangements were disclosed last year, Durenberger still fought his way through a re-election campaign, refusing to discuss his finances. He won with 56% of the vote...
...heart failure and must spend $190 a month on medications, including the diuretic Lasix, produced by West Germany's Hoechst-Roussel. The senior Connell's income from Social Security totals just $350 a month, and since Medicare does not cover prescription costs, he has begun drawing on savings to pay his pharmacy bills. "If he didn't have those savings, he'd really be in bad shape," says Barbara...
Hospitals are now requiring staff members to consider a drug's cost as well as its efficacy before they fill out prescription forms, and state Medicaid agencies are trying to hold the line by refusing to pay for some high-priced nostrums. Corporations with major medical bills are taking their own cost- control approach. General Motors has started direct negotiations with pharmaceutical firms to lower prescription-drug rates, and Rockwell International has opened its own pharmacy at an Iowa plant. "We're seeing the leveling out of the market power between purchasers and producers," says Stephen Schondelmeyer, director...