Word: shifts
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...spending on the Medicaid program for the poor by $114 billion over five years. And he would cut the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled by a whopping $124 billion, mainly by slowing inflation of payments to doctors and hospitals. These care providers would not be able to shift costs to non- Medicare patients, as they do now, because of new federal cost controls...
...dramatic shift came too late tojumpstart HMC's lagging returns--just as foreignstocks started to level off. In fiscal 1992,Harvard earned a paltry 1.3 percent on its foreignequity holdings, compared to 14.4 percent on U.S.stocks. Meanwhile, Harvard's holdings in thespeculative real estate and commodities sectors,staked out in the early 1980s under Cabot, werepummeled, the victim of depressed markets and poorinvestment choices...
...dramatic shift came too late tojumpstart HMC's lagging returns-just as foreignstocks started to level off. In fiscal 1992,Harvard earned a paltry 1.3 percent on its foreignequity holdings, compared to 14.4 percent on U.S.stocks. Meanwhile, Harvard's holdings in thespeculative real estate and commodities sectors,staked out in the early 1980s under Cabot, werepummeled, the victim of depressed markets and poorinvestment choices...
According to the new plan, sources said, urgent care staff members who work in the day shift will be decreased and a doctor who staffs the clinic full-time will be eliminated...
...such idea to leak, blending the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, got a cold reception from both. Budget reforms are a major focus: the National Performance Review will recommend that Congress draw up budgets for two years at a time, that it give federal managers more authority to shift money from one account to another, and that it allow agencies to keep at least half of any money they save out of a fiscal year's budget. At present, if an agency spends less than its budget allows, it must return the money saved to the Treasury...