Word: tightenings
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...fall within an income and spending range that offers fewer benefits. Nor does it help the millions of working people not eligible for Medicare coverage. As health-care spending keeps rising, (9.3% in 2002, according to the trade journal Health Affairs, the largest increase in 11 years) and employers tighten their coverage to cut costs, consumers have grown more resentful of what they are paying at the drugstore. While prescriptions represented only 10.5% of total health-care costs in the U.S. in 2002, they amounted to 23% of out-of-pocket costs for the consumer...
...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...feel a lot of pressure to win and it has made us not play well,” Peljto said. “When teams are close we tighten up a little because we think we should win every game...
Capital Punishment After all the the spilt milk, Italian business may be about to start crying even harder over the Parmalat scandal. Stung by the €7 billion alleged fraud at the dairy firm, Italian banks are looking to tighten restrictions and raise risk premiums on loans to companies. And the domestic corporate-bond market has all but dried...
...what in particular would be affected, Mendelsohn said Berman and Hoffman did not go into specifics. However, he pointed to several areas that have recently had to tighten their belts and said the officials gave no sign that relief was in sight...