Word: proportionate
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Who cares about costs? Can we put a price on good health? We better before our economy goes into intensive care. The current rate of health care costs is "threatening to consume an impossible proportion of the gross domestic product." That's not a Bush critic talking. Those are the...
Is Wolfe just crying wolf? Or has a pervasive corruption -- which the FDA seems powerless to stop -- spread throughout the pharmaceutical and medical- device industries? Upjohn and Dow Corning strenuously deny any wrongdoing.They point out, rightly, that only a small proportion of consumers report problems with their products, and that...
In a recent Boston Globe poll establishing Clinton and Tsongas in the lead, the most notable statistic was the percentage of undecideds, the proportion of registered voters who have not yet made up their minds. That figure--a striking 79 percent--illustrates that almost eight of ten New Hampshire voters...
By the same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is...
In the first place, the pseudo-moral attention lavished on this spectacle offends a sense of proportion and priorities. Did Bill Clinton have an affair with Gennifer Flowers? The question must get in line behind real news: drugs and drug murders, AIDS deaths, illiteracy, a population getting dumber, 74,000...