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...prospective payment" system of such plans requires enrollees to pay a lump sum in advance. Since the HMOs are going to make no more than this fixed amount, "there is strong incentive to keep the patient healthy, to prevent sickness, and to keep the period of care short," he said...
...source close to the Center says that several years ago when oil companies were enjoying unprecedented returns on investments in the Middle East, the Center received about $300,000 from the firms each year. Now, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, that sum has decreased by almost 80 percent...
...honors or another. However, honors requirements vary depending on the department. Most laurel-seekers, though, follow the well-worn, traditional path of the written essay. In what is supposed to be a well-written, well-argued essay of anywhere from 50 to 150 pages, theses writers try to sum up their four-year sojourn inside ivy-covered Har- vard through an in depth exploration of sometopic of their choice...
...sum of these positions, says Paul Bender, dean of the law school at Arizona State University in Tempe, "makes things better for affirmative action." But for which plans? The next tests will come shortly. The Justices have two more major cases on the subject to decide by July, one involving fire-department promotions in Cleveland, the other the imposition of a minority-membership goal on a New York City union. Last week's decision would seem to bode well for those and other affirmative-action schemes. But William Bradford Reynolds, the combative Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insisted that...
...imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form something greater than the sum of its individual strains...