Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would someday become Chief Justice of the U.S., Earl Warren. Expedient arguments could always be found. Though no Japanese Americans had actually committed sabotage, wrote the eminent columnist Walter Lippmann, "it is a sign that the blow is well organized and held back until it can be struck with maximum effect." Said General DeWitt...
Medicare and insurance companies have tried to make sense of medical charges by establishing maximum fees for hundreds of surgeries, tests and procedures. But the medical establishment is winning the accounting war. Some doctors attend seminars on "creative billing," learning how to describe medical treatment in terms that will yield the highest prices. A $2,900 gastrectomy, the removal of all or part of the stomach, can be billed a la carte as several procedures for a total of $6,900. When auto-repair shops or lawyers do that, we call it padding the bill. Doctors call it "unbundling." Some...
Finally, set maximum reimbursement levels for high-cost pharmaceuticals. Drug firms are among the most profitable in the U.S. And $3,800 a dose is too much...
...Cobb added that he is making his comparison to restaurants which seat 100 people maximum, not the hundreds of students which Mather serves dinner to each night...
...City Council order passed Monday called for "additional police presence" and "maximum police visibility...