Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtual marketplace where, by a process he calls friction-free capitalism, buyers and sellers can exchange goods and services without paper money, malls or middlemen. Except, of course, for the ultimate middleman, Microsoft--which, in return for making those electronic transactions secure and reliable, plans to collect a small toll off each and every...
Some Medicaid savings are necessary and achievable. From state to state, there's a huge disparity in federal Medicaid spending. New York and Washington, for example, collect an average of $2,000 per poor person, while in Idaho and Kansas it's about $500. With that much federal money running through the system, some states have helped create an overgrown health-care industry and health-care bureaucracy, both of which could stand some pruning. Other states have whole departments devoted to scamming more Medicaid money from the Federal Government. And when it comes to services, some optional benefits, like adult...
...Performance tests are a math arithmetic test, at least once an hour...Most subjects, we collect urine samples from. We tested for blood levels of cortisol and melatonin...during a constant routine we take blood more than once an hour," he says...
There may be a Republican primary contest in New York after all. A federal judge has struck down GOP rules for New York's presidential primary on the ground that they set unfair barriers to would-be candidates. (To reach the ballot, each must collect tens of thousands of signatures from registered Republicans in all 31 state districts.) Under the order by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, the Party must allow candidates on the Republican ballot if they collect 1.41 percent from each district (about 150 signatures), more in line with the Democrats' requirements. TIME's Laurence Barrett says Korman...
...back of the New York City courtroom, holding a book of essays by Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art? At the time, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment seemed a better choice: the prosecution had called 18 witnesses to back up its claim that King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London for a canceled fight in 1991, and the defense had called only the evasive King...