Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsiders can only go by what we see: the two campus-wide popular elections have done much more harm than good where council image is concerned because many candidates have come across as petit-politicians rather than students in favor of honest change. As a political outsider, I do not want to hear about political liasons and campaign finance problems in my student government, nor do I want candidates to run on platforms that promise the moon. Candidates should have a sense of humility about what they are doing and a realistic sense of the council's capabilities...
...must try harder to present itself as an organized body of dedicated students; it must pay less attention to politics and more attention to its self-stated activist goals: "to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies...to foster and coordinate campus-wide social activities...to promote and fund student groups and organizations...and finally, to serve as a campus-wide forum for the expression and exchange of student ideas and opinions...
...space. The vast, treeless continent conveys the awesome inertia of a place where motion is noticeable only on a geological time scale, as though the extreme cold flowing out from the polar plateau has slowed the pulse of life itself. On the ice sheets, ice streams 50 miles wide--glaciers within a glacier, in effect--look like frozen rapids when seen from space. Only if time-lapse photography could collapse many hundreds of years would the continent look alive as the ice flowed and cracked, redistributing its mass according to the laws governing gravity and friction...
...November that medical-loss ratios of for-profit HMOs paying a flat fee to doctors for treatment averaged only 70% of their premium revenue. The remaining 30% went for administrative expenses--and profit. Other surveys have yielded less alarming figures, and even among profit-making HMOs, there is a wide range. One managed-care plan in New Jersey spent only 59% of its premium dollars on care, while some California for-profit HMOs pay out as much as 88%. But few of the profitmakers pay out as much as the best nonprofit plans: 89% for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care...
Could the Minneapolis plan be the model for a kinder, gentler managed care? Its success is by no means assured. Some executives say privately that the plan would have to grow to twice its present size--112,000 enrollees--in order to spread costs over a wide enough base to stay viable. That means attracting more companies, and even in Minnesota the idea is too radical to prompt more than a kind of nervous interest. Then too, Minneapolis-St. Paul is somewhat unique because of its close-knit business community and well-educated work force. So far, the only feeler...