Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation is urgent, says Procter Hug Jr., chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and eight other Western states. Hug says that with a third of its 28 seats vacant, the court has had to cancel hearings for about 600 cases this year. Criminal cases take precedence by law, so at both the trial and appellate levels, it is civil cases that have been crowded out. Civil rights cases, shareholder lawsuits, product-liability actions, medical-malpractice claims and so forth are being pushed to the back of the line, however urgent the complaints. Chief Judge...
...doctors say they also want to take better care of patients. Prying more money out of HMOs for treatment is one way. Another is to insist that HMO contracts let doctors make all the decisions on treatment rather than allowing "M.B.A.s phoning from the back of their limos to cancel bone-marrow transplants for breast-cancer patients," as one medical researcher puts...
...spared having to defend that as well as his salary and Mike Ovitz's lavish payout. "When Disney or ABC were worried about boycotts or this or that, I kept saying to everybody, 'I'm the one who's going to get the biggest boycott,'" says DeGeneres. "'You can cancel the show, you can go and make another one. It's not going to hurt you. I'm the product here...
...teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective up to two weeks after exposure. The outbreak came during peak growing season in California, where 80 percent of the U.S. strawberry crop is grown, causing some worried suppliers to cancel orders. One grower said he lost $12,700 in canceled orders Wednesday...
...fortunate enough to connect, there are incredible delays and malfunctions. To get a simple response to an E-mail inquiry on AOL takes days--if an answer comes at all. I'm tired of setting my alarm for 3 a.m. so that I can try to connect--to cancel my subscription to the service. Ordinarily, I would have sent this letter by E-mail, but... RONALD SCHENK Dublin, Ohio...