Word: notionally
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...result, health care is costlier at Dunn: the average charge for heart-failure and shock treatment is $7,892, for example, compared with Bedford Regional's $4,817. But Bedford Regional, which gets about a quarter of its revenue from managed care, vigorously disputes the notion that its treatment style is any less effective. "Just because you can stay twice as long at Dunn doesn't mean it's better health care," Birdzell says. He adds that Bedford Regional's drug-selection policies are not cost-driven. It prescribes both TPA and streptokinase, for instance, depending on the specifics...
...country, two systems. Beijing's promise to Hong Kong has the virtue of simplicity. In the West it conjures up the notion of a tiny island of advanced civilization lodging precariously inside a primitive, monolithic communist mainland. In China, though, it's a glaring understatement. Two systems? China today has dozens of political and economic experiments jostling one another, all progressing in different directions at different speeds. One country? China is many countries already. Hong Kong will be just one more participant in an unfinished revolution...
...RICHARD JAECKEL, 70, movie tough guy; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. A real-life Marine during World War II, Jaeckel took on the Japanese in the Sands of Iwo Jima. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a logger in Sometimes a Great Notion...
Then there's the old, sickly guy with the Chicago Bulls. Gratitude for this bounty should not be an overnight realization, but the 44 minutes Michael Jordan put in the other night against the Utah Jazz crystallize the notion that we are blessed. It's not enough that he plays every game triple-teamed by the pressures of age (34), a fifth title and his own Airness. Needing a victory last Wednesday in the Delta Center, where the Jazz never lose, Jordan stayed on the floor despite a debilitating viral infection, rallied the Bulls from 16 points down and finished...
...group to salute lefthanded. A thicket of arms would snap up in the regulation manner, accompanied by an enthusiastic chorus of "Good morning, SIR!" Sometimes, Lieut. Sweeney would pause after he passed us, look puzzled for a moment and then shake his head and move on. But the notion that we could have an impact on his mental health was wishful thinking...