Word: circuit
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...matches. The final was the third time Blake and Kendrick had taken each other on. The last time they met was on the same court at Brookhaven in the finals of the USTA Boys' 18 & Under Indoor Championship two years ago, when both players were still on the junior circuit. Blake won that match in five sets...
...practice cost control, HMOs end up practicing medicine. Even judges have voiced frustration. Ruling in favor of an HMO in an Oklahoma case in which the insurer delayed a bone-marrow transplant for a woman, who later died of leukemia, a three-judge panel in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, "Although moved by the tragic circumstances of this case and the seemingly needless loss of life...we conclude that the law gives us no choice." Perplexed by such cases, legislators in Congress and in 27 states last year considered bills that would expose health plans...
...Redford's annual conclave--and open market--of independent cinema. Aside from the high-priced bidding wars over low-budget movies, a favorite festival ritual is the emergence of a relatively unknown actress as a genuine starlet, complete with fawning fans, attitude-heavy handlers and enough buzz to short-circuit her StarTAC...
...says Deanne Dirksen, 24, a department assistant based in Louisville, Ky., who is legally blind from multiple sclerosis. To enable her to do her job, Sprint supplied Dirksen with a computer-software program called ZoomText that magnifies the print on her computer screen, and she also uses a closed-circuit TV for written material...
...conservatives may have torpedoed Lott's plan. But as the majority leader is quick to point out, in the absence of an agreed-upon schedule, there is nothing to prevent a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans from putting together the simple majority of 51 votes needed to short-circuit a trial altogether and move immediately toward censure. His plan, Lott argues, at least gives House prosecutors a chance to make the case for conviction and then allows Senators to vote on whether to prosecute further. The question is whether Lott has the leadership skills and the clout to sell...