Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that cleans up oil spills, and served for a year as president of his union local. He commutes to work from a new apartment, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter. Frazier owes his stunning turnaround to medication that has brought his mental illness under control, but also to an underutilized treatment known as psychosocial rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once they are stabilized with drugs and released from the hospital, they are too often left to fend for themselves...
...with a legal document than I do with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact in the Microsoft case. Of course he's right when he says Microsoft enjoys a monopoly on the desktop--more than nine out of 10 PCs use Windows. Of course Microsoft used its control of the marketplace to hammer competitors--just ask Netscape. And of course Microsoft could charge more than the fair market price for Windows--and do so for a long time without losing market share. After all, what's the PC user's alternative to Windows? (Apple wiseguys, quit smirking...
...PARENTAL CONTROL Of the three temptations purveyed on the Internet--sex, alcohol and tobacco--don't count on screening software to shield your children from the last two. The Center for Media Education tested six of the most popular programs to see if they blocked sites that promote or sell alcohol or tobacco. There was only one, Surf Watch, that blocked more than half the sites. Until there's better software, the best advice is still to monitor kids' surfing habits...
Precertification has been used extensively in the '90s by managed-care companies to control costs. It seemed like a good idea at the time. In theory, having doctors justify their decisions would make them sensitive to the costs of care. But in practice the system evolved into an expensive bureaucracy. When United reviewed its precertification program, it found that it cost the company $100 million a year--and still United was approving 99.1% of all decisions...
...Nawaz is charged with ordering airport officials in Karachi to stop an airliner carrying General Pervez Musharraf, whom he'd just sacked as military chief, from landing. Military intervention allowed the plane to land, and within hours General Musharraf had taken control of the country in a coup. But stabilizing military rule demands that any challenge from Nawaz's supporters be neutralized, and charging him with capital offenses serves as a warning to any challengers to General Musharraf. Unfortunately for Nawaz, thus far the general is way ahead of him in the court of public opinion. Ordinary Pakistanis...