Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main sponsor of the Fund, I had hoped that the Fund would not only accomplish the two goals listed above, but would have a diversionary effect on contributions made to the larger Harvard Gift Fund in the long-run. When paired with a possible boycott of the remainder of the Fund. Harvard students could use a carrot-and-stick strategy in dealing with the Corporation and its investment policy. If the Harvard Corporation continued its investment policy with firms with subsidiaries in South Africa, seniors and alumni could support the Biko Fund and boycott the remainder of the Gift Fund...
...most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic Wildlife Range, the spawning beds of the Pacific salmon in the Misty Fjords along the state's southeast coast, the nesting grounds of the dwindling numbers of American bald eagles on Admiralty Island and the habitat...
...first article, Fallows saw Carter as a man who "fails to project a vision larger than the problem he is tackling at the moment." Carter's aides, Fallows says in his second article, have fallen prey to the bureaucratic system that they once vowed to reform. He writes: "Run like a bureaucracy, the White House took on the spirit of a bureaucracy, drained of zeal, obsessed with form, full of people attracted [more] by the side-dressings of their work than the work itself...
...larger scale, one of the most promising alternatives to the traditional medical system is group-practice health maintenance organizations, which hire doctors to work on salary rather than charging fees for specific services, and sign up hospitals to take on their patients. A customer joining an H.M.O. pays a set monthly fee?$47 for individuals, $116 for families in the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston. That fee entitles the subscriber and his family to any medical services they may need, from a routine physical exam to open-heart surgery...
Says Dr. Noel Thompson of Stanford University and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in California: "The doctor who does something to the patient?sticks something down his throat or up the other end of his anatomy, cuts him open or takes his picture?receives a much larger amount of money." A fierce dispute rages over how much unnecessary surgery is performed on Americans each year. Though the precise figure is impossible to pin down, no one doubts that at least some doctors will operate on patients who could get by without surgery simply because the Government or a private insurer...