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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...More importantly, it will restore the patients right to choose his or her health and mental health professionals The initiative calls for at least 90 percent of all premiums to be used for patient care, public health, and training/research, and no more than 10 percent for administrative costs, with simpler paperwork and administration. These fundamental reforms of the system will hold down health care spending while improving the quality of care we all receive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

...hope people will be pleased with [the site]," said Schnare. "We hope it will help students answer the simpler questions, like 'Did I get credit from the library?' and 'Did that payment ever come...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Billing Office Moves to Web-Based Term Bills | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...game itself, I have no real objection. Admittedly it is a simpler, less sophisticated version of cricket (which is played in MANY more countries than baseball), but I don't think Americans should be ashamed of that. As kids we usually learn to play checkers as a primer for the more intellectually challenging game of chess. And it is true that cricket has many subtleties that have thus far eluded most Americans. But you are a young nation, and I'm sure that as you continue to master the simple art of slugging an oversize ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York: The Subway Series | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...There has been [a debate] as to what the value has been in the interim agreements [signed since Oslo]. There are those who thought they would provide the lubricant for permanent status [negotiations] because they were going to be able to work out simpler problems before they got to the really difficult issues. It was evident last summer that instead of being a lubricant it looked more like sandpaper, and that it made sense to move to the permanent status issues. We did that because we were concerned about the violence. But I think that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The President Is the Master of the Facts' | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...tones are earthy and dark, and the way she renders her sitters varies. Some portraits give an impression of purposeful awkwardness, while others are just somehow off. Walking through the show, the figures become more colorful-blacks become blues, browns, yellows; purples appear-and the backgrounds behind them become simpler. The show does not skip over works from Neel's transitional periods, and rightly so-these paintings are essential to the greater comprehension of Neel's progress. Some of the canvases from this time seem to be painful births-one, "Randall in Extremis" (1960), even shows the sitter...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

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