Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expansion of Medicaid would immediately expand financial access to prenatal care for many American mothers-to-be. But financial access is only one component of actual access to care. Pregnant women must first weave through a maze of Medicaid regulations to become covered by the program. OTA called this process "a formidable barrier to the receipt of timely care." But with the first few months of pregnancy being crucial to the health of the baby, pregnant women can scarcely afford to wait while overworked welfare bureaucrats process their applications...
Once mothers do find their way onto the Medicaid rolls, they must locate physicians willing to deliver care to Medicaid patients. But partly because of huge medical school debts and tremendous malpractice premiums, more than half of American obstetricians cannot afford to provide prenatal care at Medicaid rates. As a result, one-third of low-income women who received inadequate prenatal care last year attributed this failure to their inability to locate a health care provider, according to a study done by the General Accounting Office...
...manner. Times have changed. A new chapter in Chinese history has started. Modern democracy, a manifest destiny, is moving from the west to the east. People have learned that, instead of yielding their power to a handful of people to act under their name against their will, they must take control of their own destinies...
...awakening in a country like China with a long history of absolute monarchy, political power was deliberately structured to make authority irreplaceable. People unaccustomed to democracy could easily feel perplexed at the vacuum of power and unable to fill in with their own force. But this is something they must learn if democracy is what they really want...
...publisher, Valerie Salembier, was brought in last fall; she cut a swath through the advertising department, firing the ad director and eliminating dozens of jobs -- then quit after just five months. On the editorial side, the managing editor and Hollywood bureau chief have resigned, and top editor David Sendler must now answer to a new corporate overlord: Roger Wood, former editor of the sensationalistic New York Post, which Murdoch owned until last year. "There's no interest anymore in analysis of the industry or in taking a serious look at the content of TV news," says an unhappy staffer...