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Defending national championships is an extremely difficult task in collegiate sports. A particularly good team is hurt on the recruiting front, as many top-line players opt for other schools where they will be bigger names...
...companies supposedly will fare well: if they have contracted to provide their workers benefits more generous than the federally guaranteed basic package, they can in effect opt out of the broader system and carry on as before. But some fear Clinton and Magaziner want to make them pay handsomely for that privilege, in the form of a tax or premium that would be used to cover the uninsured or skimpily insured. Says a medical executive: "Magaziner's philosophy seems to be that every place somebody is saving money is a place that he can get money...
...keep big companies behind the new health-care plan is to let them out of it. In a major concession, members of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force say they will recommend to the President that he allow firms with 1,000 employees or more to "opt out" of the health-insurance pools, known as "alliances," that form the backbone of the Clinton health-care overhaul. Some experts say this move could create a two-tier system: one with generally better-insured members (working for large companies) and the other with generally less well- insured members (working mainly...
...academic year, students paid a $584 user fee and could opt for a $600 insurance plan offered through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The user fee was up 6 percent from $550 in 1991-92. The cost of the insurance increased less--just eight dollars since...
...spokesman Jack Killorin said that his bureau decided to move because it believed that during a long siege -- or even if Koresh were seized alone outside -- cult members would opt for suicide, taking the children with them. And almost all showdowns with determined and fanatical groups have led to casualties, he insisted, no matter how they were handled. "We've gone about them in a number of different ways -- ruse, ambush, siege and talk," said Killorin. "In almost every one we lose law-enforcement officers...