Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summing up in words reminiscent of Bundy's caveat 21 years earlier, Bowersock stated, "It's not my style to make threats, but neither are we willing to pass legislation that won't be enforced...
...proposed draft bills should pass, most women surveyed said they would not be willing to serve active duty...
...crippled bill, if it hobbles through Congressional committees to the floor, may even pass, because it is obsequious enough to collect votes in spite of continuing lobbying by the American Medical and Hospital Associations (AMA and AHA). Spending more than $3 million a year, those organizations put up a united front opposing mandatory controls and publicizing the hospital industry's moderately successful voluntary effort...
...ignored by Carter, courted by the hospital lobby and pressured by influential constituents who serve as hospital trustees. If Carter now shows a greater understanding of the political process, his compromises have not saved the bill from an essential misperception of the nature of health industry operations. It may pass, but it won't work...
...trying to hold off the flood of inflationary growth without addressing the source; his approach is entirely superficial. The health care industry obeys the peculiar laws of nearly insatiable demand controlled by doctors and rising prices set by medical suppliers insensitive to hospital administrators because they knew he can pass the cost on to the insurer...