Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then as if it to prove his point, Mayberry took a pager from his back pocket and placed it on the table...
...place for an aspiring writer," he said; "it was the place for an aspiring English professor"), so he switched to anthropology, graduated summa cum laude and, after a yearlong fellowship overseas at Cambridge University, returned to Harvard Medical School. He plowed through with plenty of pocket money, earned by writing a shelf full of novels before he left college. Eight were paperback adventure novels written under the name John Lange, one was an Edgar Award-winning medical-detective paperback under the name Jeffrey Hudson, and another was the hardcover breakthrough under his own name, The Andromeda Strain, which was published...
...these problems, only those uninitated to Republican antics in the House are amazed at this point that the bill in question managed to pass. As the Republican revolution gets routinized as politics as usual, the story is all too familiar by now. House Commerce Chair Bliley was in the pocket of long-distance carriers like AT&T, and he looked to aid them by permitting only the Baby Bells to enter long-distance markets after long-distance carriers got a chance to establish themselves locally...
...medication is particularly expensive. "A physician and patient can argue with the insurer," says Dr. Howard Ozer, director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta. "But if it goes on for too long and the patient can't pay for the drug out of his own pocket, he can die before the approval can be obtained...
...patients, who had a similar condition called Crohn's disease, only to learn that her health-maintenance organization would not pay for it. The woman's father finally had to put her in the hospital and pay $10,000 for the treatment out of his own pocket. Although her condition improved within days, the HMO still refused to reimburse her. "They say they won't pay because cyclosporine isn't approved for Crohn's," says an exasperated Present. "I ask them, 'Well, what is?' We know we can get sued. We know we have to fight the HMOS...