Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relman: Well, that's the risk. Under the present mode, the prevailing mode, the risk is that the doctor is going to do too much. Under the prepayment mode, the risk is that the doctor will not do enough. You have to start from the assumption that most doctors, the vast majority of doctors, are conscientious and are not going to do what is inappropriate and will not fail to do what is necessary. You have to start from that assumption. If you don't then health care is chaotic anyway...
Tucked into a single week were 37 shows of fall clothes, attracting 2,400 buyers and fashion critics. Many agreed that in important respects-fabric, detail and practicality-the milanese look has come to rival la mode parisienne...
...today's technologically and scientifically advanced society, there is a fundamental body of knowledge with which everyone should be familiar. Just as it is necessary to know basic physiology and the mode by which each of us came into existence, it is necessary to know the modern theories of the origin of life, the Earth, and the Universe. We should all understand the grand scheme presented by today's model of evolution of matter over a 15 billion year period, from the Big Bang to the emergence of Homo sapiens...
...first thing that strikes one is the sameness of dress, manners and mode of all the combatants. Battles for poverty programs and corporate interests alike are camouflaged in three-piece numbers from Brooks Brothers and armed with computer printouts, artful charts and direct mail lists...
This daydreamy commitment to an inner world is always central, often to the complete exclusion of anything approaching reality. It is fiction in the high visionary mode, and throughout the book Helprin gives us a world in which characters are only saved by their compelling beautiful visions...