Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bureaucracy, hurdles and information gaps that many HMOs have set up between patients and doctors in order to protect their corporate bottom lines have infuriated huge segments of the population. The Aetna verdict is the latest indication that, when given the chance, citizens are willing to vent their frustrations big time. "If I were anyone affiliated with running an HMO, I'd be worried about this development," says Gorman. For the moment, the Aetna verdict is an aberration in the sense that most people cannot sue their HMOs for large, punishing damage claims -- federal law forbids it. "The only reason...
...fully ready for a trial unlike any ever held. It is as much a political as a legal proceeding; the jury is also the judge; justice, which is supposed to be blind, has a party affiliation; prosecutors will be held to no specified standard of proof; and the verdict will under no circumstances be unanimous...
...vote to impeach Clinton is a verdict on his entire political life for consistently violating moral and ethical rules. JEFF SMITH Fort Lauderdale...
...talents would make those who are genetically unmodified feel redundant and unwanted. Such creations will remain denizens of science fiction, not the real world, far into the future. When they are finally attempted, germ-line genetic manipulations will probably be done to change a death sentence into a life verdict--by creating children who are resistant to a deadly virus, for example, much the way we can already protect plants from viruses by inserting antiviral DNA segments into their genomes...
...into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That's one thing I never did, either." Sheehy reports that the post-Monica healing process is far from over, quoting a source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone is addicted to something, as the President has said, "Hillary's addiction is Bill. He is her only rebellion, the one thing she can't logically explain...