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...below-average rating. The university denied the claim. Is that something you try to police? We definitely do. We throw out the two highest ratings and the two lowest ratings for each school, so we have some statistical safeguards to prevent any strategic voting from impacting any school's score. And the fact that the schools' scores have been stable - there's been academic research to show that - is proof in and of itself that schools aren't able to game the scores...
...curve-bending ideas - computerized records to bring medicine into the 21st century, comparative effectiveness studies to identify unnecessary treatments, revamped incentives to reward quality rather than volume of care - would take more than a decade to start slashing costs, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't score bills for their impact on the federal deficit that far in advance. Obama's most prominent game changer - an independent panel to set Medicare reimbursement policies removed from political pressures - did not fare well under the conservative CBO scoring system either. The only proposal that really impressed...
...behalf of her overseas client - $70,000 more than the asking price. There are no other buyers. Boemio goes over the offer three times with the Gucci lady to make sure she understands exactly what is going on. Gucci lady, she figures out, is just trying to score an extra $2,100 in commission and is screwing over her client for $70,000. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...Spread, there is a scene where you talk about getting bonus points for preparing a meal for your girlfriend. Is there anything you do for Demi to score points? -Tara Matthews, Boardman, Ohio There are definitely things, but the character in the movie and I have different motivations. More often than not, I just try to do things without keeping score, without expecting something in return or without having an agenda. (See pictures of famous couples...
...screen. Maybe prospective producers were reluctant to buck the prevailing wisdom of a conventional happy ending. Anyway, here is the film version, directed by Robert Schwentke. It's soppy enough to suit the requirements of the weepie genre, and there's a music score that tries to cue all the emotions in viewers, as if they're incapable of locating their own feelings. But the movie also has an aching solidity that allows you to surrender to its cuddly-creepy feelings without hating yourself in the morning. (See the best 1950s sci-fi movies...