Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even Norton concedes that cutting costs in its medical education infrastructure may not be adequate to recoup the loss in Medicare revenue...
...made up the difference. But three years ago, in the midst of California's particularly nasty recession, those payments were suspended. "The state is withholding about $1 billion a year," says Yaroslavsky. "Guess what? Our deficit is $1 billion a year." Orange County allowed an executive to try to recoup part of the lost funds by speculating in derivatives. He lost. Los Angeles merely borrowed, but could end up nearly as broke...
Malenfant hopes the CCA can recoup politicalcapital by being less partisan and by consultingwith its candidates more...
BUSINESS IS BOOMING. TURIN, A TRIP organizer from the small Dominican town of Miches, runs three trips every month. With each boat carrying 100 refugees, he grosses about $150,000 a year. If a boat capsizes or is captured, he gets another one and schedules an extra trip to recoup his costs. Says Turin: "There are always people willing to go." Recently, as darkness fell on Miches, Turin and his assistants and bodyguards whisked through the town, picking up passengers from safe houses and taking them to a gathering point on the beach. He was expecting a new batch...
...state of Florida agrees. Last week it filed a $1.43 billion suit against the tobacco industry to recoup money spent treating Medicaid patients with smoking-related ailments. West Virginia, Minnesota, and Mississippi have filed similar suits. Meanwhile, a U.S. district judge in New Orleans just cleared the way for a class action by three current smokers and the wife of a deceased smoker who claim that tobacco manufacturers hid the addictive properties of nicotine. If the suit proceeds, almost anyone who is "nicotine dependent" could join and seek up to $50,000 each from cigarette makers. Says Florida Governor Lawton...