Word: tenet
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...were worried that Scott's stonewalling of federal probes of Columbia's Medicare billings and home-health-care practices would only inflame the zeal of investigators and prosecutors and make a face-saving settlement impossible. And Columbia, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., was reportedly exploring a merger with Tenet Healthcare of Santa Barbara, Calif., the country's second largest hospital company. That deal would have been threatened by Columbia's prospective legal problems...
...company's practices regarding Medicare billing and its home-care operations. Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., Columbia's vice chairman, announced he would be taking over the posts of chairman and chief executive officer. The resignations came as the company was considering being acquired by its next-largest hospital competitor, Tenet Healthcare, to form a $30 billion, 500-hospital chain. Both Scott and Vandewater denied any wrongdoing in the continuing federal investigation, a multi-agency effort which seeks among other things to determine if the company overbilled federal healthcare programs by millions of dollars. Frist, who founded Hospital Corporation of America...
Unfortunately, the balance I am yearning for is frustratingly elusive. Freedom of the press is a central tenet of any viable-democracy. A legal limitation on that freedom would be devastating. But the laxity of standards and the lure of cash have put the journalistic profession in a precarious position--one that cannot continue if newspapers hope to maintain their role as perpetuators of civilization as Tocqueville imagined. Perhaps, then, I can add my voice to the clarion call for a reevaluation of the mission of journalism and the potential dignity of the profession...
Hovering over South Africa last week was the spirit of Ailey, the brilliant Texas-born dancer and choreographer who, guided by the central tenet "Dance came from the people--we must take it back to the people," formed his company in 1958 as an incubator for contemporary black dance and nurtured it into a major American cultural icon. "There are times on stage when I speak to Alvin before I perform and ask him to guide me," said Nasha Thomas, 35, an 11-year veteran of the company. At the first performance, Thomas drew a thunderous ovation with her wrenching...
...fill out mind-numbing forms that demand details of everything from teenage drug use to housekeeper taxes, and then submit to separate White House, FBI and Senate investigations, all of which can take several months. Some nominees pre-empt questions themselves: last week CIA director-designate George Tenet asked the Senate to delay his confirmation vote in order to look into investments his father gave him without his knowledge...