Word: planning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those students who lack either the funds or culinary ability to feed themselves, it is a miserable existence. Thankfully, Harvard Dining Services (HDS) can fill this gastro-intestinal void. HDS is contemplating adding a fourth meal to the board plan, we hope in acknowledgment of the long nocturnal hours we spend working instead of sleeping...
...that Alison has decided to leave Howard, I'm starting to think that maybe all this public self-revelation, while promoting honesty and openness, isn't such a good game plan for a relationship. This became clearer as I realized most couples don't leave the Jerry Springer Show with a lot of issue resolution...
Reeve, however, doesn't plan to stay that way. On Sept. 25, 2002, his 50th birthday, he hopes to rise to his feet, lift a glass and toast the people who have helped him through the past few years. "I wouldn't bet the farm on it," he says. "But there's a chance it might happen...
...appears that the pendulum of managed care may be swinging back toward doctors and their patients. In a move that's being described as "extraordinary," UnitedHealth Group, the country's second largest health insurer, will announce on Tuesday that it plans to place more faith in its member doctors' diagnoses. The health plan, which insures more than 14 million Americans, spent $100 million in the past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments...
...decision is oozing with irony: In recent years, the idea of medical "cost-effectiveness" has become synonymous with insurance plan bureaucracy, evoking images of penny-pinching accountants heartlessly rejecting pleas for medical help. Could Tuesday's announcement be the first pebble in an avalanche of new health plan policies? "Sure, it's one company," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "but it's the second largest in the country, and this is a very important move on their part...