Soaring U S hospital bills exceed inflation and GNP
An AP survey shows hospital charges rising faster than inflation and the gross national product. In 1982 hospital expenditures reached 135.4 billion, driven by high charges for routine procedures like appendectomies amid shifting payer costs and charity care subsidies.
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Frederick teen hurt in accident
A Frederick teenager was injured when she ran into a car at West South and DeGrange streets. Tawanda M. Foreman, 15, was flown to MIEMSS in Baltimore in critical but stable condition. Driver Patrick L. Jackson, 19, said he did not see her. police listed pedestrian error as the primary cause and cited speeding as a secondary factor.
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Video conferencing boosts annual meeting participation
ANNUAL MEETINGS FARMINGTON Conn AP A trend toward livening up company annual meetings is under way Due to video conferencing more annual meetings than ever before will be taken to shareholders in various parts of the country predicts John Budd Jr of Emhart Corp Budd author of Corporate Video in Focus says such meetings will have more emphasis on shareholder participation.
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Former nun defies orders to remain in state post
Detroit welfare chief Sister Agnes Mansour, who left the Sisters of Mercy, says she had no choice but to resist Archbishop Szoka. She opposed public Medicaid abortion funding but believed denying payments would harm the poor. The Vatican backed Szoka, and Mansour continues leading Michigan’s $2 billion department while noting she remains a nun at heart.
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Invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops 1968
Russian soldiers and troops from Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, marking a pivotal moment in Cold War history as Soviet forces moved to curb reforms and tighten control over the Eastern bloc.
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