Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With these two assumptions. Bok seems to maintain an artificial separation of theory and practice. Not only must academic pursuit of knowledge be protected from the field of application, but also, our precious opiate, freedom of opinion and speech "as individuals" (Bok's emphasis), must be protected from the possibility that it might really influence policy...
...points to escalating hospital costs as a major source of inflation, but his ceiling on revenues is at best a stop-gap measure. More fundamental changes are needed, but as usual the public seems solidly set in its apathetic ways. Everyone has a hospital horror story, but few maintain a running interest in the issues of hospital organization and economics. For most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic. Government and consumers increasingly take...
More specifically, the commission argues that the only viable way to maintain such high levels of federal funding is through the imposition of spectrum fees--charged to those who use the "public" airwaves. The argument goes as follows: Public broadcasting, if properly funded, provides a vital, public service, producing enriching and artistically sound programs. Commercial television, on the other hand, produces some sort of inferior, mind-rotting drivel--all in the name of the advertising market. Because commercial broadcasters limit access to a valuable resource, they should help fund the public system. Spectrum fees will provide a politically insulated, long...
...beginning of each bout etiquette dictates that each fencer salute the director (referee) and his opponent with his blade. Vastola says "when I salute my opponent I give him a long, hard stare. It doesn't have to be too menacing and malicious although sometimes that helps too. You maintain eye contact. I remember earlier in the year against North Carolina seeing my opponent nervously avert my stare. That boosts my confidence and drains...
...task Mingus has set for them The personalities of the three drummers do not come across in the dynamic way that the piece demands. Still, the composition is strong; the dark, winding ensemble sections are executed with great panache, and the rotating half-dozen horn soloists maintain a tension that rises from the moody to the outright schizophrenic...