Word: stress
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Talmadge Bill. Officials stress that the program is only temporary. In part, this is to avoid bruising the feelings of the President's fellow Georgian, Herman Talmadge, chairman of a Senate health subcommittee, who has been working on a more modest cost-containment plan: a bill that offers hospitals bonuses if they keep down Medicaid and Medicare billings. If unrestrained, total Medicaid and Medicare expenditures are expected to leap 18% in the next fiscal year, to $38 billion...
Oteri pursued a pragmatic strategy: stress the savings in governmental expenditures that decriminalization provides, focusing on key legislators who have opposed the bill in the past. The nationally famous trial lawyer placed a priority on convincing opposition figures that support of HR-4914 would not bring defeat at re-election time. To prove his point, Oteri drew upon NORML monies to conduct a poll of Flaherty's own district in South Boston to gauge the extent of popular support for decriminalization in a reputedly conservative district. Harvard Business School students undertook the task of actually surveying these constituents...
...advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this, because I know I am in great danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in what is the case from an advocacy of what ought to be the case...Be warned that, if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from our biological nature...
During the campaign, Carrillo's Communists will stress their independence from Moscow, their support for Spain's entry into the European Community, and their acceptance of U.S. military bases in Spain (as long as the Soviets have troops in Eastern Europe). The party hopes to win as much as 12% of the vote-a figure that some observers feel is exaggerated. One immediate problem the party faces is how to raise the estimated $15 million it needs to wage an effective election campaign. While much of the money will undoubtedly come from special assessments of its members...
...pair placed a new stress on approach shots and strategical golf. They revolutionized play around the green by mapping out 126,000 square feet of sculptured, undulating greens on their new course...