Word: obtained
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...should come as no surprise, says TIME science and health contributor Fred Golden. "This is what managed care is all about: parceling less care to more people." In such a system doctors will not be able to do all that they want and patients will not be able to obtain all that they seek. "When doctors were in control," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "costs escalated. To control costs, some care has to be denied." Which is why the ongoing debates on Capitol Hill about managed care are currently stalemated: Neither party is able to come up with...
...with Sergei, a Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, frequently drifts off into descriptions of how senior officers are stealing the funds for the upkeep of soldiers or even the barracks provided for them. Ivan, a former senior officer who suffered multiple concussions from artillery in Chechnya, explains that he could not obtain a disability pension because he did not have the several thousand dollars for the bribe that a military medical commission demanded to process his application...
...conclude that the 'Controlled Choice' student assignment plan is not one of rigid racial quotas intended to obtain racial and ethnic balance," they wrote. "It is a flexible plan that guarantees access for all population groups to all the regular educational offerings of the Boston School System...
...media wants a silver bullet, but it is virtually impossible to obtain one, especially given how cancer trials are designed...using end-stage patients who have failed all other therapies with large tumor mass, et cetera," he says...
...source for The Crimson reports of the untrue allegation that many of the documents from the University that Professor Nesson and I have posted were marked "Personal and Confidential," this would suggest the University's ambition to obtain short term gains at the expense of others' reputations and its long term credibility. PETER BERKOWITZ June 8, 1999 The writer is associate professor of government...