Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would you change the reimbursment program to save money? Relman: The fee system should be changed so that there is not such a high payment for technical procedures as compared with personal services. As it is now, a few minutes spent peering through the end of some sort of instrument...is reimbursed at a rate that may be literally an order or two of magnitude greater than time spent, talking to the patient, examing the patient, counselling the patient or staying up with a sick patient at a hospital. These kinds of personal services that require a lot more time...
...many people who are concerned about social problems are taken up with the problem itself rather than stepping back, developing an instrument of action and then moving on with the organizational basis of the social problem. We've all done this--I did this in the auto area and with the utilities. Then a few years ago I realized that the real way to unlock this enormous concensus against certain patterns of injustice in this country that exist among the American people is to provide the instrument of organization in sector after sector." When this begins to happen. Nader says...
...again using the spelling tactic. "It's rescued me from a fate that's worse than death: just like a destiny, it gives me new breath." Music is inextricable from his existence; it is his escape art. The kids who have nothing else to live for play a battered instrument or sing, dreaming of being in a rock-and-roll band, and Jeffreys romanticizes this dream's cleansing powers, which are dwindling with the new diversity and problems in the record business...
...Clyde, Kans., reports that high interest rates and low crop prices are killing farmers in his region. Says he: "We've got to do something to get prices up or else have another Grapes of Wrath book writ about us." Joe Lewis has owned a small musical instrument store in Atlanta for more than ten years, but last week he closed up shop for the last time, saying: "I survived the last recession, but this time I'm not making...
...women and minority delegates because each had an intellectual and political contribution to make, rather than because the party wants superficial proof that it is broad and fair?" More independence for the delegates would also revive the importance of the national convention, which Sanford describes as a "consensus-building instrument that is crucial to our effective self-government." This, in turn, is likely to produce better nominees. Democratic government can be destroyed, writes Sanford, if "we mistakenly assume the goal to be participation rather than selecting the best possible presidential candidates...