Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't ask that Hunter be sent to Chapel Hill, N.C., in the first place and why PHP's "authorization" was not a simple solution to the problem say a lot about managed-care coverage. O'Connor was unaware that his own company had a liver-transplant contract with UNC because it was really not his company that held such contracts in the first place. In the managed-care business, general-health insurers like PHP often farm out high-cost specialties like organ transplants to secondary insurers who "carve out" coverage of these procedures and do separate deals with hospitals...
Meanwhile, the interrogators are like the optimistic little boy looking for the pony in a barnful of manure. They are so sure that where there's sex there must be a sofa that they ask witnesses to inventory the furniture in the presidential study. White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles provides comic relief when he makes his appearance. "Good morning, Mr. Bowles," says his interrogator. "I believe you have a device that you would like to inflate?" No, it wasn't a blowup doll; it was a pillow. And while the grand jurors wait, Bowles huffs and puffs...
Chaplain Mark Weiler is holding a seashell filled with purified water. Normally it's the parents who ask for him, when they want their baby baptized and don't think they can afford to wait. But this baby was abandoned weeks ago, and is due to go into surgery in an hour; it was the nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby...
...would be deeply hated. But Mahathir is a well-loved leader among Malaysians. Remember, he was democratically elected to Parliament and to the presidency of his party. By consensus within the ruling coalition, he leads the other parties in government. The wily Mahathir has never been too proud to ask for advice. And in this, he has been well served; he has some of the most competent economic advisers. The Malaysian team has decided to improve the country's dire economic situation. It has drawn the battle lines, and it is doing something. Let's have less name calling...
...hope the University realizes our field is ahighly capitalized one," Matthew said. "It's toomuch to ask the U.C. to give...