Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements too low, and billing restrictions grossly unfair. In protest, physicians refused to treat patients or accept new cases. A new terminology came into vogue, as orthopedists threatened a "Day X"--a day when they would cease to provide services. Journalists coined the term "pseudo-unions" to refer to Massachusetts chapters of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
...whole nation, though. So we do what appears to be the next best thing--supporting organizations, such as USA for Africa and Oxfam, which work to alleviate famine in the world. Even Harvard students try to do their part. One of the biggest events on the calendar of the pseudo-socially-conscious is tonight's Oxfam fast. But if it's too late to do anything about this year's event, take my advice: never take part in another Oxfam fast again...
JOHN HARVARD looked a bit miffed, or at least lonely, the other day. Snapshot-hungry tourists have taken to posing in front of the shantytown instead of the pseudo-founding father...
Morelli (in the first) and Pakalnis (in the second) tagged Bruin starting hurler Danny Rice for solo shots that bounced in front of two pseudo-Victorian houses...
Stewart attributes much of the hype over AIDS to homophobia. "Anti-gay feelings which previously could not be articulated are now being expressed in the name of health. Some people use AIDS to claim pseudo-scientific justification for their bigotry," Jake Stevens says...