Word: parallelling
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...powerful forces that are fast reshaping the culture and practice of medicine in America--not just cutting costs but changing in a fundamental way how doctors view patients, and perhaps how patients should now view doctors. In a three-month investigation, TIME chronicled Christy deMeurers' journey, but also the parallel, interlocking story of Health Net, one very prosperous company in the Southern California market, a hotbed of managed care that offers a living demonstration of what's likely to occur everywhere else as the new medicine continues its rapid advance. Taken together, the two stories provide a look deep inside...
According to administrators, Harvard's public service programs, including those in the Office of Public Service, were in dire need of restructuring in order to consolidate parallel programs and improve management practices...
...shopping and 20 percent off sales and flashing lights. It has nothing to do with Jesus, or with what lies at the heart of Christianity and Christmas. They say you can't take the Christ out of X-mas, but we have. The tree is a part of this parallel and secular holiday which, coincidentally, also goes by the name "Christmas...
...reality, the two offices were working already quite closely and efficiently and were not duplicating efforts or systems. The staff at the OPS consisted of only two individuals, compared to PBH's 10, and it was not a separate parallel structure. In fact, the Mather Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program, which was larger than all of the other of the house-based programs combined, joined PBHA to ensure that duplication would not occur. In addition, although the report supposedly sought to address the "divide" between PBH and non-PBH structures, the review failed to consult any students involved...
...running parallel with the fairy tale was the nightmare. In 1991 Awilda petitioned for, and was granted, unsupervised visitation rights with her daughter. The mother had already regained custody of her two older children; she seemed to have effected a miraculous recovery. In December 1990 social workers signed an affidavit stating that she had given up drugs, married a man named Carlos Lopez and settled at a permanent address. "Both [Lopezes] are willing to go for random drug tests," the affidavit read. "They never miss appointments with the agency, and they are always on time. Mr. Lopez is supportive...