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...present Aetna's new bedside manner. "In response to a real market need, we heartily embraced managed care," he told the crowd. "But there was a price, in terms of too many restrictions and too much process that have grown increasingly unpopular. There are those who say the pendulum has swung too far. I agree...
...those between the program commissioning and production sides. The Birt system was designed to instill accountability into an organization that got $3.4 billion of its $4.5 billion in annual revenues from a license fee levied on every TV-owning household, and had little respect for budgetary discipline. But the pendulum swung too far. Under Birt, as every department had to justify its costs, transfer pricing ballooned, and it became cheaper to go out and buy a music recording than to take it out of the BBC library...
...irrational but also sweet-natured and not unhealthy. The underlying idea was that failure was something potentially good for you and for everyone, that rejection and loss were not only personally inuring but that losing was also a sign of high and admirable ambitions. To note how far the pendulum has swung, go see Wonder Boys and the Silicon Summit on the same...
With the onset of the second game, however, Springfield recovered its fire, and the game became one of momentum shifts. After a huge solo block by junior co-captain Justin Micomonaco, Harvard seemed to have shifted the pendulum in its direction...