Word: rationalization
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...going to be particularly merry for Sears, in what is turning out to be a gratifying season for retailers of all stripes. Mail-order companies such as Lands' End and L.L. Bean are running out of inventory. Snootier luxury sellers such as Gucci and Prada are having to ration their high-priced goods...
...healthy is Radcliffe? Outside measures of financial health are useful to this analysis. One indicator is the proposed Federal Title IV Responsibility Standards which determine an institution's eligibility for financial aid funding. These standards combine date on three criteria--debt/asset ration, reserves and net income--to derive a score by which institutional financial health is evaluated. Radcliffe's FY96 score is an excellent 4.6 on a scale of 1-5, where a score of 1.75 is required to certify a financially responsible institution...
Paradoxically, the VA, notorious as a pork pipeline and bastion of bloated bureaucracy, is at the same time starving for resources. Its medical-programs budget has been declining in real dollars for 16 years. Some congressional mandates restrict access and ration care in often misconceived efforts to keep costs down, while others keep federal dollars flowing to unneeded facilities in Congressmen's districts, driving costs up. Long-forgotten political horse trades, now enshrined in law, make it difficult for the VA to deploy its resources rationally to best meet the real needs of veterans...
...guess, I have seen less than the normal ration of today's violent movies, but I've seen enough. To me the television scene was tame in comparison, to my father (who has seen none of the violence-packed movies) it was gruesome. He retains the capacity to be shocked; I've lost some of mine...
...west, in the Nuevo Vedado district, Eugenio, a sports trainer, produces his ration book. For July he was allotted 6 lbs. of rice, 10 oz. of beans, 1/2 lb. of oil, 3 lbs. of sugar, 1 oz. of coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette...