Word: soundness
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...pleased with? I think about 10 times I've submitted something and thought I might get a call. The odd thing is, I don't think the ones I've submitted that were selected as finalists were as strong as some that were ignored. I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I'm so happy that three of mine were selected as finalists. The last thing I want is for the New Yorker to say, "That ungrateful bastard...
...thinks she will be forever stigmatized because his wife has walked out. Apparently only traditional nuclear families can be happy. Indeed, the one successful brood is the one at the movie's center; they are all the things their friends aren't, and as sensitive as the acoustic guitar sound track mandatory in U.S. indie films...
...quite hard to keep insured patients who ask for expensive medical tests and treatments from getting them. Blocking a patient who wants something they saw in an advertisement is time-consuming. Teaching the complex truth one on one is a lot harder than convincing large numbers through eye-catching, sound-biting market psychology. It's a money loser too. Most of the time, a patient who has been sold on something you don't want to use will just leave and go to another doctor. (Read about the five big health-care dilemmas...
...likely to be far more difficult to resolve. That's because under the budget rules, any plan that Congress passes will have to pay for itself within 11 years without adding to the deficit. Passing muster with government bean counters is not the same thing as writing sound health-care policy. While many health-care-reform moves promise big savings in the future for the larger economy, they will require huge up-front investments, with only a small part of the savings ever accruing to the Federal Government's bottom line...
Exxon-funded scientists have released their own studies, which question the NOAA team's findings and claim that there is little oil left in the Sound. But Rice's studies have held up under peer review - and this reporter personally saw oil buried in a handful of beaches. Ironically, the Exxon spill has greatly enhanced scientists' understanding of the effect that crude oil can have on a vulnerable marine environment: it is more toxic to life than we thought, and harder to clean up. "Even the best cleanup will fall short," says Craig Tillery, a deputy attorney general...