Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Widespread Interest...
...maybe what we need to here at Harvard to rejuvenate our faltering sports interest is our own Cup. Currently, our sports teams play for division titles and championships. Meaningful endeavors certainly, but nothing that fans can directly relate...
...interest in academics came at an early age. At the age of 10, Kety was bedridden after a car accident. His parents gave him the 12-volume Book of Knowledge to read; Kety read it cover-to-cover...
...part, these lobbying efforts may be a result of self-interest; Harvard is a beneficiary of federal research funds. In April, Rudenstine and the University similarly lobbied Congress to maintain funding levels for teaching hospitals, of which Harvard Medical School is affiliated with more than a dozen...
...legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns...