Word: switches
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...insurance plan with no alternatives. If the government decided to reduce funding or deny coverage for certain medical technologies or procedures, patients would have to forgo their use or pay for them out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer. Janet Trautwein, CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...
...First, the University must stop pulling a bait-and-switch on donors who wish to give to initiatives that will directly benefit undergraduate life. It is not acceptable to tempt donors with the promise of improving the undergraduate experience and then use their generosity to finance unrelated activities. In the future, the Harvard College Fund should do a better job of advertising itself for what it is—an fund to be spent at the discretion of the FAS dean on FAS-wide initiatives. If the HCF continues to be administered by FAS dean and used for such purposes...
...thought it was the Dunster murder-suicide that really opened a lot of eyes around here in the 90s as far as logistical, on-the-ground things,” University spokesman Joe Wrinn told The Crimson this April. “There was kind of a switch then that pulled [the University] to begin to organize it more...
...oral contraceptive available OTC would dramatically increase its usage. According to a survey by Louis Harris and Associates, quoted in a policy report for the Institute For Women, “20.4 percent of sexually active women who currently do not use the Pill would be very likely to switch to that form of birth control if it were available over-the-counter,” which, the report adds, would lead to an increase of 6.96 million users...
What’s in a name? For some, the switch from a department named Afro-American Studies to one entitled African and African-American Studies in 2003 simply reflected the department’s growing focus on two separate, although necessarily intertwined, fields of study...