Word: rational
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...This political stalemate has left Nicholas Callaway, founder of the book?s publisher, Callaway Editions, in a bit of a bind. "At this point, only those first 8,000 copies will be shipped from our warehouse to bookstores," he told TIME.com. "We?ve been forced to ration the books, because the existing copies won?t meet the demand or fill our advance orders." The publishing house, which, like many of its competitors, has worked with Chinese manufacturers for ten years without incident, had planned a major fall lineup to mark its entr?e into the world of full-service publishing. Unfortunately...
Moderation management is the notion that alcoholics (or "problem drinkers") can continue drinking as long as they are careful and stick to a kind of homeopathic weekly ration of drinks (nine for women...
...plans, from HMO and Medicare to more flexible preferred-provider organizations (PPO); physicians with 100 or fewer HMO members would now be paid for each patient they saw, rather than with a flat, monthly rate under the hated system known as capitation, which in practice compelled doctors to ration care if they wanted to make any money. And patients with chronic conditions would now be able to use specialists as their primary-care physicians...
...doctors are fighting back against deep fee discounts--in some cases dropping out of networks altogether. More people are opting for flexible plans, choosing preferred-provider organizations over HMOs (see sidebar). Says Tom Ferguson, a health-care consultant at William M. Mercer: "There's less incentive for providers to ration care...
Wearing all this stuff is the easy part of the aging game; what's harder is performing the various tasks Chutka demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile...