Word: bring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high school drama student getting passed over for the jock who can bring athletic glory to fair Harvard and dollars into the fund drive campaign? I hope not, for Harvard's admissions standards should not be lowered for athletic prowess at the expense of true diversity. I am encouraged by the agenda of the University Resources Committee, and hope that the equal time it spent studying athletics and the arts is a fair barometer of the relative weight that should be placed on extracurricular activities at Harvard...
Many physicians argue that the only way the U.S. is going to bring its medical costs under control is by emphasizing preventive medicine instead of crisis care. They stress exercise, weight control, cutting out drinking and smoking. Says Dr. Hoyt D. Gardner, president-elect of the A.M.A.: "America medically suffers more from affluence?and consequent self-indulgence?than from poverty." But not many doctors are genuinely optimistic that much will be done...
...technology, and by its nature it cannot be anything but a seller's market. But U.S. health care bills do not have to shoot up as rapidly as they are doing now. The big question is whether doctors, hospital administrators, insurers and employers can devise ways to bring the public the benefits of technology at an affordable price, without a federal whip being held over them...
...unable to pay. That used to be true of medicine, too, in the now dimly remembered days when patients paid nearly all the bills out of their own pockets. No more: the saddest irony of the medical inflation is that it has been triggered largely by an effort to bring quality medical care within everyone's reach...
...diagnosis of why medical costs are shooting up is reasonably clear, the course of treatment that could bring those costs under control is anything but clear. It is easy