Word: clamp
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...architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic New York, 1917--a bunch of slats, stacked to mimic the setbacks of skyscrapers, held together by a C clamp...
Deciding who pays for unapproved uses is, in fact, a growing problem. For years insurers have recognized the importance of off-label prescribing and have agreed to reimburse patients for their prescriptions. Now many cost-conscious managed-care firms have started to clamp down on off-label reimbursements--especially if the medication is particularly expensive. "A physician and patient can argue with the insurer," says Dr. Howard Ozer, director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "But if it goes on for too long and the patient can't pay for the drug...
...futile. (Negotiators are now hoping that they will be able to conclude the talks in September.) Second, Hamas leaders had expected that during the cease-fire, Ara fat's forces would stop harassing them, but this was not the case. And last, despite the relative quiet, Israel continued to clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that it's not Hamas' attacks that cause their suffering," says "Faris," a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank, "but the racism...
...control the underlying inflammation, usually with corticosteroid drugs. What makes the disease so dangerous is that it can kill in a matter of minutes. Every now and again, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the bronchioles overreact to the presence of allergens. The walls of the airways clamp down, shutting off the supply of oxygen to the heart, the brain and the rest of the body. "It's as if there were a cork in the bronchial tube," explains Dr. William Busse of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. "Air does not move...
...STORY, July 3], but it is not really of any significance. The real issue is that governments and politicians are worried about the global freedom of information that the net represents. They are using high-profile, low-significance stories to sway public opinion and give them the power to clamp down on the net. Censorship for the sake of children would be only a first step. The would-be censors don't give a damn about protecting young minds; they want to control them. But the freedom of information on the Internet is beyond them: the individual is empowered. STEPHEN...