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Other professors contend that the gap between science and non-science grades has leveled...
...Democrats are deeply suspicious of the plan's supposed windfall, arguing that only those who have money can afford to save it. ""Their program attracts only the well-off," said Dick Gephardt, "while the sicker and poorer people are left behind." The cost of treating those needier patients, opponents contend, will quickly drive up Medicare premiums when healthier seniors are allowed to squirrel away unused Medicare funds. To make sure that the test is meaningful, the White House promises to make sure the pilot program enrolls a representative slice of Medicare recipients...
...informal warning, fines, reprimands, demotions and courts-martial. This sustains authority and flexibility but invites caprice and prejudice. Air Force defenders point out that the branch's statistics on adultery courts-martial betray little sexual bias, reflecting almost exactly the male-to-female ratio of the force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal...
...would contend that feeling is shared by students...
...while the lobbyists were making their rounds, EchoStar executives abruptly announced that negotiations with Murdoch had stalled, stymied by the media mogul's insistence that EchoStar switch to a Murdoch-approved descrambling technology. Some industry observers contend the technology issue is only a smoke screen for other problems faced by the venture. The deal was thrown further into doubt late last week when Preston Padden, Murdoch's top satellite executive, resigned, reportedly after clashing with EchoStar chairman Charles Ergen over control of the venture. "The EchoStar deal left me without a real job," Padden told TIME. "I have nothing...