Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cynics may contend that doctors mainly want to protect their incomes by preventing HMOs from lowering capitation (per patient) payments. In California, where HMOs are most dominant, the average earnings of a primary-care physician dropped from...
...there is a heaven. We create it every day when we protect a child, help an adult and revere our home, the earth." GEORGE A. ERICKSON New Brighton, Minnesota...
Some whites are determined to protect their dwindling enclave with an unwritten set of rules governing which avenues minority residents can walk on, which parks their children may play in and what time they must be off the streets. The rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center...
...will bear and the history of quasi legal collusion by the Ivy League's Overlap Group are disturbing. What concerns me even more is that these are supposed to be the top U.S. colleges--icons of leadership and principle. But they are behaving like a bunch of followers. They protect their bottom line while they try to impress prospective students and "look as good as Harvard." The ethics gap between what is taught and what is done by the institutions is apparently an ever widening one. BRUCE D. SHEPHARD Tampa, Florida...
...Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, the administrative equivalent of a free speech bible, maintains the College must "affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate, and picket...and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice." But how can the College ensure a comfortable speech environment and to what extent is the nature of speech determined by its context...