Health Bills A Pain In The Purse
Rising medical costs strain the economy with health care taking a growing share of GNP. Private competition and hospital management firms are highlighted as promising long term solutions. John Cannon argues four drivers fuel a medical technology revolution akin to the postwar computer era. ServiceMaster shows strong growth in cost efficiency. The piece ends advocating dual portfolios for the 1990s.
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Department of Health and Human Services
U.S
General Motors
Wall Street
John Cannon
Flourtown
Medical Technology Fund
Cannon
ServiceMaster
Product Packaging Costs Americans $150 Per Person Each Year
Americans spend about 150 dollars per person yearly on packaging costs for food and drinks. A USDA report by Gallo and Connor notes over 600 pounds of packaging per person in 1980 and nine cents of every dollar spent on food goes to packaging.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Economics and Statistics Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Anthony E. Gallo
John M. Connor
USDA
National Food Review
Gallo
Connor
Gallo and Connor
Twenty Five Years Onback Pay Delays Frustrate Darlington Workers
Nearly 25 years after Deering Milliken shut Darlington Manufacturing 553 workers who voted to unionize await a $5 million settlement. Tax bites, missing workers, heirs, and locating alums have delayed payments. Union leaders say hope fades as legal battles traced to 1956 culminate in delayed compensation.
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Darlington
Deering-Milliken
Darlington Manufacturing Co
Kathleen Mattox
Raymond Swann
Swann
John Barry
Roger Milliken
NLRB
Milliken
U.S. Supreme Court
Florence
S.C
John Falcone
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
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