Word: stretch
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...free care is going to illegal aliens passing through on their way to other states. About half goes to Mexicans who use the Copper Queen as their personal emergency-care facility. In effect, the hospital, which performs general surgery, has become the trauma center for that stretch of northern Mexico. If an ambulance pulls up to the border-crossing point near Bisbee and announces "compassionate entry," the border patrol waves it through, and the Copper Queen is compelled to treat the patient. It is one more program that Congress mandates but does not pay for. "If you make me treat...
...only at the highest doses. Furthermore, the results show that the vaccine - as it is currently constituted - would take two and perhaps three injections to achieve good protection. That is a problem, since the U.S.?s already modest stockpile of material to make an avian flu vaccine won?t stretch very far. In order to make the vaccine practical for a wider population, the scientific community, business and government must work together to figure out how to make the vaccine more effective at lower doses...
...tougher in his day. In 1975, a year in which he led the American League with 26 saves, Gossage pitched 142 innings. Thirty years later, Bob Wickman shared the lead with 45 saves, pitching just 62 innings. That's half the work, double the reward. But it's a stretch to say that today's chiseled, athletic players are inferior to yesterday's stars. "Laughable," says Miami Herald sports columnist Dan Le Batard, 37. "What, anywhere in society, was better 25 years ago? You're using better training methods and previous education. And there's a worldwide talent pool...
Klein says if we give middle-income Americans "economic security" in the form of government-run health care, "they might be willing to look at the rest of the world--and controversies like the Dubai Ports deal--less emotionally." It is a stretch to think that government-run health care would be satisfactory, and it would in no way affect the public's opinion toward foreign investment...
Spring break also provides the team’s most intense training of the season, allowing a long stretch of uninterrupted games in warm-weather areas...