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Meyer said, however, that the reports of high salaries this year were the immediate impetus for this review...
...Impetus for Change...
Saying youth in the 1960s were the impetus for passage of the major civil rights an environmental protection legislation, Kerry urged the students to "recognize the power that you have...
...biggest surprise in the past two years has been the rapid growth of a system known as managed care. Millions of Americans have been shifted into health-maintenance organizations, dramatically restructuring the financing and delivery of health care. The original impetus for managed care came from physicians who wanted the freedom to treat their patients without being worried about whether they could pay for each visit, test or procedure. In the early HMOs, cost containment was an unexpected benefit, not the primary purpose. Since then, in many cases managed care has lived up to those ideals--by paying far more...
...problem is even clearer when we see the diversification of the university as an extension of the degradation of public culture. The impetus for both is democracy, which aims to secure immediate validation for all possible experiences, including the most vacuous, lurid and debauching. As pornography, crudeness, and sensationalism erode public decorum, great pressure bears on the university to follow suit--to become indiscriminate, to refrain from judging and to take everything...