Word: highers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Harvard athletes compete in the higher profile Division I, Beaney said his Division III squad is similar to the Harvard program...
...position of backing a patient bill of rights against HMOs while he also presses them to take care of the elderly,? says Dickerson. The result is that HMOs have decided to fight back, leaving many seniors with a continuity dilemma for next year: whether to accept fewer benefits at higher fees, sign up with a different HMO, or return to the standard Medicare program...
...more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average U.S. real income has also risen in the past two years, after a long period during which wages rose less than prices. Result: consumers are willing to spend heavily, which creates still more jobs and higher incomes...
There is concern that the preoccupation with zero casualties may boomerang. "Force protection has taken on a higher degree of importance than the other battlefield dynamics of firepower, leadership and maneuver, and has often stifled the flexibility of the operational commander," retired Army Colonel Max Manwaring wrote recently. The U.S. desire to avoid risking troops, though understandable, "sends mixed signals to warring factions, reduces U.S. credibility with coalition partners as well as antagonists, and hampers civil-military cooperation," he wrote. "Excessive emphasis on force protection can be politically and militarily dangerous...
...public dialogue on Kosovo. No one called Vietnam a quagmire for five years. Kosovo was declared a quagmire after about five days. Press suspicion and Republican partisanship are reasonable enough, but there ought to be a sense that criticism of a military operation in progress should meet a higher standard of seriousness because such criticism does aid the enemy, whether it is intended...