Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that by pursuing affirmative action, Harvard undertakes a commitment to diversity that extends beyond equality of opportunity narrowly construed. Yet it does so in an attempt to affirmatively contribute to remedying the social and economic barriers that tend to limit opportunity for some minority groups...
However, Weed says he will not limit his future research only to those technological improvements...
...airlines or medicine. They also voice concern that patient care will collide with the profit motive and get the worst of it. Under a system known as capitation, which pays HMO providers a set monthly fee for each enrolled patient, doctors are offered a financial incentive to limit both the number of patients they see and the types of services they provide. Says James Tallon, president of the United Hospital Fund, a philanthropic and health-services research organization in New York City: "In the old system, sick people were what drove the money in. In the new system, sick people...
...Montanan, that is. Since moving here from the temperate East Coast, I've grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have...
...Fitzsimmons admits that there is a lower limit for applicants' ages...