Malpractice insurance costs soar claim up to 300 percent
Legislators hear that malpractice insurance has risen as much as 300 percent in a decade with Phoenix data showing juries awarding 1.2 million dollars in Maricopa County. Only 17 verdicts favored defendants, yet doctors retain high incomes, and costs are passed to patients. Tougher rate controls could reduce burdens on consumers.
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Phoenix
Kenneth Rosengren
Maricopa County
Rosengren
Progress adds eight page unit to expand Scottsdale press
The Progress reports a new eight page unit installed this week, boosting the Goss Urbanite press capacity to 40 pages. The upgrade, costing nearly 50 000 dollars including shipping and installation, aims to offer more color pages to advertisers and improve service to readers and advertisers. The paper remains bullish about the Valley’s long term outlook despite a continued recession.
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United States
Arizona
Scottsdale
Goss
Soviet dissidents seek Western refuge amid Kremlin pressure
Vladimir Maximov says Moscow has decimated free thinkers by expulsion and imprisonment. Dissidents like Solzhenitsyn and Medvedev live in Switzerland and England as Sakharov seeks medical leave abroad but is denied. Maximov appeals to U.S. Senator Henry Jackson to aid emigration and free expression.
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Nicholas Daniloff
Washington
UPI
Vladimir Maximov
Maximov
Soviet Union of Writers
Moscow
West
Kremlin
United States
Soviet Union
Western
Europe
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulag
Ivan Denisovich
Switzerland
Congress
U.S
Zhores Medvedev
England
Viktor Nekrassov
Andrei Sinyavksy
Paris
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Czechoslovakia
Slips and legal notes across several papers
A fragment from Niagara Gazette cites medical aid at a scene for inhalation injuries. The San Francisco Examiner notes a strong box for wills. Rep Daniel Peaches pushes lawmakers to address Indian problems in Arizona Republic.
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Niagara
N.Y
Daniel Peaches
Arizona Republic
Musing on Mustangs and Wild Horse Roundups in the West
The letter recalls postwar air driven roundups to drive mustangs to death, notes the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act banning some methods and sales, and questions current populations. It suggests shipping mustangs abroad to save them amid ongoing debate and rancher impacts on feed.
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American
Planned Parenthood clarifies outpatient sterilization procedure
Ann L. Maerz, RN, director of clinical services, corrects a report by Carla Welles noting that laparoscopic female sterilization can be performed on an outpatient basis at Planned Parenthood. The procedure requires about four hours in the surgical center with no overnight stay.
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Carla Welles
Planned Parenthood
Ann L. Maerz
Planned Parenthood Association
Wallace faces primary repeal push in several states
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report liberals seek to end presidential primaries in North Carolina Tennessee Maryland and Michigan to curb George Wallace appeal. Repeals threaten Wallace delegates and could drive voter frustration into November as party leaders try to lock him out of key delegations.
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Washington
North Carolina
George C.wallace
Wallace
South
George Wallace
Michigan
Alabama
Texas
Florida
Tennessee
Montgomery
Ala
Kentucky
Georgia
Arkansas
Louisiana
Lloyd Bentsen
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
William Waller
District of Columbia
Terry Sanford
Duke University
Sanford
Raleigh
James Holshouser
Holshouser
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Jerry McElfrosh
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Scottsdale Publishing Inc
E. Earli
Ariz
Progress
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