Word: bulks
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...another: the characters, the director, and the viewer, because there’s no way that this movie is going to work. While the film has its merits, it falls flat on most fronts. In addition to having fairly poor production value—the bulk of the “stunning” Parisian backdrops are clearly matte paintings—the movie’s three primary characters never achieve humanity; they start out as and remain types. Gilda is the extroverted and rambunctious bohemian socialite, Guy is the wide-eyed British schoolboy with a conscience...
...said that the store’s relaxed atmosphere is part of the charm. “We’re not really a franchise like Tealuxe,” she said “They do a lot of blends and probably import a lot of tea in bulk. We’re not big enough for that, but we actually know our farmer...
...training and over 6,000 consultations a year entitle them to an annual income higher than the $A120,000 the average G.P. earns. They also resent any plan aimed at controlling their charging. "I forewarn the Labor Party," says A.M.A. president Bill Glasson, "not to pursue this fever about bulk billing." It may result, doctors say, in many G.P.s either leaving the workforce or congregating in areas where more people are prepared to pay to see a doctor. The Rural Doctors Association says medicos in remote areas are doing it particularly hard: as well as bearing higher costs than their...
Deeble watches the evolution of health policy with interest. If bulk billing came to mean that patients paid a small sum from their own pockets, he confides, he could accept that. But he tends to think any bulk-billing crisis has been "manufactured" on behalf of doctors who resent that twentysomething stockbrokers earn more than they do. "The government could limit the doctors' charges under Medicare," Deeble says. "It's just that there's been a general agreement that the blood on the ground would be so bad that they never would. But I think some day they might have...
Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said yesterday they reversed the decision because student groups need to order supplies in bulk and online—an action that requires a credit or debit card...