Word: canceled
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Finally, many economists maintain that Clinton appears to be combining contradictory ideas that will cancel each other out. Paul Ellwood, a pediatric neurologist and health-policy expert who helped develop the managed-care idea, insists that his model cannot work in conjunction with price controls. Says he: "That would be like Yeltsin saying, 'We're going to introduce market forces here in Russia, but we're going to start out with the government setting the prices.' Price controls are not compatible with price competition." In Ellwood's system, costs would be controlled by competition among health-care suppliers to serve...
...endangered in Alaska). They argued that the move was needed to boost the number of caribou and moose on which the wolf packs generally feed. But a growing boycott of Alaskan cruises by some of the very tourists the state had meant to attract forced officials to cancel their plans...
...last ditch effort to cover up their own ineptitude," Bolton wrote, "the Arts Council faxed me a couple of days ago and tried to cancel the presentations, hoping to postpone them to a later date when they could be better prepared...
...Wilmington, North Carolina, a thriving manufacturer and exporter of mobile crane gear, ran into that problem when its bank cut the firm's $10 million credit line by $1 million. Then one of American's important distributors was forced to shut down completely when another bank decided to cancel that company's credit line entirely. "Banks are just not giving us the breathing room we need," says American CEO Bob Cumming. "The banks themselves will not talk about what is happening, but they are closing down perfectly good businesses...
...case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again. It was only when Bobby Lee Cook came in that he denied he was guilty...