Word: aimed
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Unions of health-care workers, who witness firsthand the treatment managed-care patients are getting, have been especially active. Local 1199 of the National Health and Human Service Employees Union, whose members staff hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices in New York City, is starting its own health plan. The aim, says local president Dennis Rivera, is to "take for-profit out of the equation" and lower costs--not for care but for overhead and salaries. Eleanor Tilson, executive director of 1199's 320,000-member plan, makes $175,000 a year--peanuts compared with nearly any other HMO chief...
While we are pleased that increasing numbers of women are admitted to Harvard each year, we do not believe that the College should aim to achieve a gender quota as the staff implies. The only just way to achieve gender equity is through a College policy of recruiting talented women and men with equal vigor and evaluating applications on a gender-blind basis. --Dan S. Aibel '98 --Alex M. Carter '00 --Missy R. Langsam '00 --Noah D. Oppenheim...
...musical numbers maintain the style and feel of the writing, so that the show itself is as varied as its sources. Nearly all of the works are sung, but the aim of the music is to help communicate the author's messages rather than send the audience home humming. The fusion of words and music works well, emphasizing the spectrum of emotions exposed by the writing...
...billion. Gallo's wines may vary in quality, but its marketing and distribution muscle is top shelf. Turning Leaf turns up everywhere, and with good reason. Aided by a series of confidential memos, Jackson's lawyers showed how Gallo executives, pressured by their demanding chairman Ernest Gallo, took careful aim at the leader of the popularly priced Chardonnay market. Gallo launched its new wine directly at Kendall-Jackson, propelled by a $10 million advertising blitz and enough consumer surveys to fuel a presidential campaign...
...states that won the settlement could hardly contain themselves. "This is the beginning of the end for this conspiracy of lies and deceptions that have been perpetuated on the American public by the tobacco companies," said Arizona's Grant Woods, who brought one of the first state suits that aim to recoup billions of dollars in Medicaid money spent on illnesses related to smoking. Attorney general Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III of Minnesota emphasized the battles ahead: "This is like busting a street drug dealer to get the Colombia cartel. We are very serious about going ahead and making sure...