Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical community's response is the opposite of what it should be; health care experts treat medicine as a competitive economic market. Some financial inducements have existed since the 1970s. Common incentives include educational loan forgiveness, adjustments to the relative value of Medicare's payment schedule, and tuition assistance in exchange for service in under-served areas ("Northern Exposure's" Fleischmann takes part in such a program). Barely a stop-gap measure, this kind of solution hardly cuts to the heart of the problem...
...only are financial inducements aimed at the wrong target; they're also unsuccessful. Studies and figures demonstrate that reimbursement offers have had little effect. Tuition or loan forgiveness can save students and their families in excess of $100,000. That's a tremendous amount, to be sure, but it's less than the average annual salary for U.S. doctors. And it's far less than the average salary for most specialists...
...AIPAC's goals has been loan guarantees to Israel to bolster stability, he said...
...snub-nosed .38 revolver aimed at Bay Lop's temple and the grimace on his face are etched into the memory of every American who read a newspaper in 1968. His summary execution by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called...
Perry F. Bedinger, 49, pleaded guilty in June to the charge of fraudulently obtaining a loan of nearly $1 million from Winter Hill Federal Savings bank to purchase condominiums at the Old Colony Lane complex in Arlington...