Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people, subtly or otherwise, away from fee-for-service and into managed care (or gets them to pay for the difference out of their own pockets). Leaked reports about the Republican plan for Medicare say that it might impose caps on Medicare's annual cost, and that if costs exceed the caps, the difference would be taken out of the government's payments for fee-for-service insurance only. That is one way to drive people into managed care...
...PUBLICITY surrounding the so-called fat substance [SCIENCE, Aug. 7], an obesity-reducing hormone, fooled your readers into abandoning a prudent diet. Obesity is a life-threatening condition that has become prevalent in our country. Recently the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 34% of Americans exceed their ideal body weight by more than 20%. A quick-fix cure for obesity is a nice thought, but prevention of this problem is much wiser. ALEX HERSHAFT Bethesda, Maryland
...Last year was the first year that I can ever remember that the Coop had a loss," says Dickson, who has been on the Board of Directors since the early 1980s. "You can't operate a business at a loss, particularly when you return most of the [money] that exceed[s] your expenses in a year to the members of the Coop...
...annual revenue is half that of Apple and one-fourteenth that of IBM. But software is vastly more profitable than hardware. Apple makes 3.3% profit on every dollar of sales, compared with nearly 25% for Microsoft. In some respects, the power Microsoft wields over the computer industry may exceed IBM's in its heyday...
...pointed to the need for agencies to "take cost into account in setting standards...and to certify that benefits will exceed the costs" of enforcing environmental standards...