Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, organic chemistry students in the more theoretical Chem 20/30 track, which is a spring-fall track designed for chemistry concentrators, had their lab component bundled with the secon-semester segment of the track, Chem 30. In the past, Chem 17 and Chem 30 students therefore shared the same lab space and conducted the same experiments in the fall, but whereas the Chem 17 students frequently had not been introduced to the chemistry concepts used in the lab, their Chem 30 counterparts had already been taught all the necessary theory...
...worried about this legislation," says Jay Pieper, vice president for corporate development and treasury affairs for Partners Healthcare System, the affiliation of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. "It is such a focused reduction in a particular segment of health care. If you're intelligent you have to be worried...
...Hospitals are just one lobbying segment, and the requirement in Washington is to get the job done with the least amount of voter rebellion," says Pieper. "In this particular case, hospitals represent a somewhat vulnerable target...
...hospitals?" Pieper asks. "There are only a couple of hundred major teaching institutions in the country. Once again, the political ability of that group to complain are small compared to other groups, so it is a source of money that is very focused and harmful to that particular segment. I don't think the strategy is an accident...
...part that is disproportionately focused on a small segment that is of great concern to us," he says...