Word: excellance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year an N.C.Q.A. report card found that 86.7% of Health Net's members rated the plan good to excellent, slightly below the mean for the 21 large plans surveyed. On specific measures that the organization believes reflect a plan's quality, such as how often it provides mammograms, Health Net tended to rank at the mean or just below, but lagged sharply in providing prenatal care for mothers and retinal screens for diabetics--the kind of preventive care at which managed-care companies are supposed to excel. The report card also showed that Health Net spent less on medical...
...their sex in Exhale, it is middle-class black women who take the real beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging than the ones it replaces: the young professional woman who can excel in a demanding job, be a successful single mother and support her aging parent, yet who is abjectly clueless about defending herself from exploitative males--the romantically stunted career-girl stereotype that Hollywood has already perfected for white women. "One of the things I was hoping to accomplish...
...always liked Excel at college," Waldman said of his days at Harvard. "But I never thought in a few years I'd be running the program...
...women's basketball team is to win the Ivy League title this season, it must remedy these weaknesses and find the poise and mental toughness to excel in clutch situations...
...Crimson has been excellent defensively. Senior Tripp Tracy (89.1 save percentage, 2.95 GAA) and freshman Peter Zakowich (91.3 percent, 1.50) have both performed up to high preseason expectations in goal. Harvard's penalty-killing unit, one of its team's strengths in recent years, continues to excel (87.2 kill percentage...