Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration is issuing a stream of thou-shalt-not orders to HMOs that sign up Medicare patients. The latest prohibits quick in-and-out mastectomies. Others forbid HMOs to limit what doctors can tell Medicare patients and restrict their ability to pay bonuses to doctors as a reward for keeping costs down. This regulatory club has power, since HMOs rate signing up Medicare and Medicaid patients as their best prospect for expansion...
Beat poetry--the stream-of-consciousness, "anything goes" style of verse--took the literary world by storm in the '50s as Ginsberg and fellow Beat pioneers Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac travelled to readings and poetry sessions around the nation...
...grandest and most mind-bendingly ornate theaters in America, an eclectic melange of Art Nouveau and other turn-of-the-century ornamentation and a triumph of the restorer's art. Disney is hoping the New Amsterdam will be an economic triumph too, as home to a lucrative stream of wildly successful Disney stage shows. First up, in May, is a concert version of King David, a new musical by Alan Menken and Tim Rice...
Paul Simon sings, "Every day is an endless stream of cigarettes and magazines...
...single most coveted stream of money at Penn is tuition because unlike federal grants, it is entirely "fungible"--it can be spent anywhere within the university on anything. It gets mixed with other fungible streams, like investment income, to the point where trying to follow the tuition trail becomes about as easy as tracking a particular cup of water through a faucet. It is almost impossible to say exactly what tuition pays for and what it doesn't, other than to say that it constitutes the major portion of the university's general fund and that anything paid for from...