Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freeze is a form of price control aimed at the estimated 30% to 50% of doctors who charge their patients more than Medicare's established fees. Like most private health-insurance programs, Medicare has payment schedules showing how much each procedure should cost. Until last week's action, a doctor could charge pretty much what he pleased. If he charged the Government rate, Medicare paid him 80% of the bill and the patient made up the remaining 20%. If he charged more, the patient gave the doctor the full amount and Medicare reimbursed the patient...
...They are not caused by the IMF or IMF programs. They are partly the result of past mistakes, partly the result of world recession, partly the result of high interest rates in the industrial countries. The IMF gets the blame. It's like blaming the doctor because the patient is sick...
...break par 70 on any of the four days, but his seven-over-par score won the tournament by two shots. This year, when agronomists left the course relatively alone, Irwin led with three sub-par rounds before collapsing spectacularly under the combined weight of Winged Foot's patient vengeance and a second straight day of Zoeller's rollicking gallery. These days a golfer unafraid to smile is likely to be followed anywhere. Before the playoff, Zoeller said, "I kept hearing people say, 'Don't let the money out of the country.' Hell...
...most diagnoses come too late, leaving the average patient with a life expectancy of three to six months...
...democracy, Mrs. Gandhi has indicated that she will eventually reopen negotiations with the Sikhs and reconsider their demands. "We are all bruised," said one top-level Indian official. "We have killed our own people. India's future and its soul now depends on our humanity, on gentle, forgiving, patient wisdom...