Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a decade, studies have found racial discrepancies in the treatment of kidney failure, heart disease, arthritis, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses...
...card in a B. of A. machine." Moreover, he says, the cost of the transaction is just a small part of the bank's expenses, which include purchasing, installing and maintaining the machines as well as paying rent at nonbank locations. "Banks are being singled out for special treatment," Magnani says. "What other industry has been told it can't charge for products and services?" Concurs Robert Litan, a Brookings Institution economist who has completed a study of ATM fees for the American Bankers Association: "There is no justification for imposing surcharge bans on any type of ATM owner...
Nothing seemed more unlikely that morning we met. I hadn't anticipated his sort of relentless good cheer on my first day in treatment. The center struck me as a cross between a mental hospital and a minimum-security prison. Yet Jay acted suspiciously happy to be there. I figured him a flake, one of those self-proclaimed talent agents who pass out business cards to aspiring actresses...
...known when to stop. We had become addicts. We had gone through dark seasons at the end of which someone--in his case his partners at CAA and in mine my wife--had given us an ultimatum: get clean or get out. And we ended up at this treatment center outside Portland...
Then comes the feature, and charm is replaced by the dull treatment of a way-too-familiar scenario. As in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, an evil genius lords it over a mountainous island patrolled by a supermonster. The monster here is Mewtwo, a kitty clone or copycat of cuddly Mew. And as in Toy Story, the old-fashioned toys (like Mew) have to teach the mechanized ones (like Two) a bit about human values...