Word: restriction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specialists to lower-paid general practitioners. But the new Administration rules went even further, cutting future Medicare payments by $3 billion and lowering reimbursements to some groups -- notably internists -- that Congress had intended to help. To make matters worse, the government issued new rules last week that will sharply restrict the circumstances under which doctors may send Medicare and Medicaid patients to clinics and out-patient services in which they have a financial stake. These investments, which have yielded rich dividends for physicians during the past decade, will now have to be restructured or withdrawn altogether...
Critics blasted the measure as an attempt to "sanitize" Atlanta's downtown for the benefit of business and in anticipation of the Olympics. "We believe this law will be selectively enforced to restrict certain people's movements, and we will fight it," said Anita Beaty, co-director of the Task Force for the Homeless. But police chief Eldrin Bell argued that the ordinance would, in fact, protect the homeless from criminals...
...Soul. Among other things, it declares that "there is no single, consistent biblical ethic of sexuality" and instructs the church to "repent" its oppressive morality, which the document deems to be the work of white patriarchal "heterosexists." Forget "rules about who sleeps with whom," it urges, and do not "restrict sexual activity to marriage alone," but celebrate all forms of sexual intimacy, "marital, premarital or postmarital...
...will be drafting a new version of Circular A-21--the all-encompassing set of regulations defining appropriate indirect cost billing--that will attempt to further restrict overhead reimbursements in light of the findings...
...life term. Taking advantage of a rule that waived the $300 filing fee for paupers, Demos had sent 32 repetitive petitions to the court. The justices voted 6 to 3 to blacklist Demos, making future free appeals harder. In a second order, the court amended its rules to restrict "frivolous or malicious" petitions by the poor, who file more than 60% of the court's cases...