Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money. So before another $21,000 is doled out, members are expected to focus on what they say was one source of difficulty--uneven adherence to criteria for determining awards. To do more than just say "sorry" to those groups which don't 'meet requirements for grants, representatives add, the council will also assemble a guide to sources of funding elsewhere at Harvard...
...defensive medicine"--ordering additional health-care procedures in order to protect themselves against potential suits. According to an A.M.A. survey, 27% of doctors admitted that because of concern about possible legal action, they prescribed additional treatment, and 40% said they ordered extra diagnostic tests. Such practices, the A.M.A. estimates, add from $15 billion to $40 billion to the national health-care cost, which, like the increased price of health insurance, is passed on to the patient...
...camera's-eye view, including the out-of-focus background and prismatic light blurs, but the effect is different from photos and even more so from painted murals. The weaving process, with its interlaced wefts and warps, gives the fabric a subtle play of light and shade and adds the fascination of texture. Hernmarck's tapestries thus add warmth, a reminder of nature, to the sometimes chill corporate setting, enhancing the architecture rather than merely decorating...
Reagan did add that if a successful system is developed, "then is the time to turn to the world, to our allies, possibly even our adversaries," for discussions preceding actual deployment. But that point could be far in the future. Moreover, the Soviets consider SDI research to be a threat even if it never produces a deployable Star Wars system, because it might lead to technological breakthroughs that would give the U.S. an insurmountable lead in offensive types of weapons, including those that might be based in space...
...inform his superiors, the colonel allegedly replied, "Don't bother with superiors. The less they know, the smaller headache they will have." About a month before the crime, said Piotrowski, the colonel called him into his office and allegedly told him, "I don't think I have to add that this is a decision from the highest level...