Word: awards
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TRADITIONALLY, government funding for scientific research has been granted to institutions via a merit-review process--in which peer committees review grant proposals and award money to the most qualified applicants...
Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the Olympic gold medalist in the marathon who set a world record last year in the America's Marathon, was named the winner of the Sullivan award as the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union's top athlete...
...financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed his new password. Insisting that was impossible, Frost declared that he would insert clues to his password in newspaper classified columns and award prizes for solutions...
...legal reforms that the doctors want, and the lawyers oppose, are technical but important. For example, the A.M.A. proposes eliminating punitive damages, and seeks a cap on "noneconomic" damages awarded for pain and suffering or mental anguish, which it says account for 80% of the dollars paid over the $100,000 level. It also wants a victim's compensation from such sources as medical or unemployment insurance deducted from court awards. Most bitingly, the doctors have called for a slidingscale limit on "contingency fee" arrangements, whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third...
...counterarguments spin like windmills in a storm. Doctors charge that extravagantly punitive lawsuits are driving many from high-risk specialties; lawyers countercharge that patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between 1976 and 1984, but doctors' total income went...