Carter Critiques Rising Health Care Costs and Hospital Expansions
President Carter rails against fast rising hospital costs outpacing inflation and notes factors from insurance to hospital expansion. Phoenix area hospitals seek hundreds of millions in modernization, risking duplication and greater patient travel.
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Carter
Good Samaritan Hospital
Phoenix
Phoenix Baptist
St. Luke’s
Central Arizona Health Systems Agency
Scottsdale
Tempe
Mesa
Paradise Valley
Scottsdale Votes on Two Percent Hotel Bed Tax Tomorrow
A city election asks Scottsdale residents to approve a two percent hotel bed tax. Visitors would pay the tax with no effect on locals, funding half to modernize Chicago Cubs training facilities and the rest for tourist promotion.
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Phoenix
Chicago Cubs
Washington Merry-go-Round and a Power Play in Texas Utilities
Gen George Brown accuses Congress of cowardice over Angola policy and is criticized for past anti Jewish and anti British remarks while the Pentagon misquotes a Brown interview to praise Congress. A secret FPC tape reveals Texas utility favoritism that could cost consumers nearly 200 million by decade end, with data suppressed and a GAO draft blasting the agency.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Iran
Great Britain
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Ronan Lurie
Angola
Joint Chiefs
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Britain
Lurie
Federal Power Commission
Texas
Carter
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Eaton Place Finale Reverberates in American Memory
Harriet Van Horne notes that audiences embraced the English drama Upstairs Downstairs about the Bellamy household at 165 Eaton Place. The series, portraying class and duty, boosted PBS fundraising and left viewers yearning for rooted, orderly values mirrored in their own lives.
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Lord Bellamy
Buckingham Palace
Belgravia
Oshkosh
Sioux City
Hudson the Butler
Georgia Worsley
PBS
Georgia
Marquis of Stockbridge
Daisy
Edward
Hudson
Bridges
Bellamys
Alex Haley
Emerson
Robert Frost
Bellamy
Barbara Tuchman
RGA proposes Lincoln Drive three lane option for safety
The Responsive Government Association clarifies support for a safer Lincoln Drive with a three lane road and center turn late and traffic signals. They seek a referen dum on five lanes versus three and note RGA members on local safety committees. They warn five lanes favor developers, urging energy conservation and desert community preservation.
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Guy) Stillman
Responsive Government Association
RGA
Town Hall
Stillman
Citizens Advisory
McCormick Ranch
Joy P. Maclean
City should fight prostitution in Scottsdale editorial
Editor CAROL CASTILLO urges Scottsdale to address prostitution locally, noting visible activity at public social gathering places and lack of council discussion. She questions arrests and proposes either strict crackdown or legalization with taxation.
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Arizona
Scottsdale
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