Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strange Bedfellows. I just returned from the IOP debate between the Straight White Men of the Left and the Straight White Men of Peninsula. I must admit, I was rather surprised to hear Guardians Brady and McDonald insist that "Sex is great--inherently great," except when the participants are members of the same sex. How do they know? Have they tried it both ways...
SOLUTION: Managed care. Providers of group insurance should insist that doctors treating their patients be paid salaries or flat fees. Such a system is already employed by many HMOs, which charge group-insurance plans an annual fee for treatment and produce often dramatic savings. Treating 40 million Americans last year, HMOs cost an average of $2,683 per person, 17% less than the $3,214 cost of traditional indemnity plans, according to a survey conducted by the Foster Higgins consulting firm. Doctors bound by such strictures would still be free to earn extra income by treating other, higher- income patients...
...attitude of purchasers to whom the illicit trade panders is not something laws can change. When taxed with blame, art connoisseurs and dealers grow philosophical: they insist that they are rescuing pieces from an uncertain fate, that they are better equipped to maintain and protect much % artwork and that in general, cultural property ought not to recognize frontiers. Lowenthal herself admits, "A heritage is also a splendid ambassador of the country's culture to the rest of the world...
...splendid conspiracy, two new films insist on being stared at. They can get away with this affront to dullness because they are for kids, whose eyes have not yet been educated to squint, and because they have the cartoonish spirit. Beauty and the Beast, a fairy tale, is Disney's 30th animated feature; The Addams Family, a comic ghost story, is a flip book based on Charles Addams' drawings. Both films are defiantly artificial, with fancy musical numbers and design schemes that carry not only the mood but most of the humor. And both movies have talking furniture...
Like inner-city elementary school teachers who regularly feed and dress neglected children, emergency room doctors and nurses are being asked to shoulder society's problems with fewer resources than ever. And while most politicians and taxpayers would insist on the hospital's moral obligation to treat all emergency cases that come its way, nobody is willing to help...