Word: withdrawal
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...managed-care companies renewed their contracts for 1996, but their support for TennCare is tenuous at best. The gao report suggests that if their concerns are not addressed, they "could withdraw in large numbers." Robert Corker, the Tennessee commissioner of finance, insists that the state is still working on making TennCare more responsive to providers. But if federal money is cut next year, the state may be faced with the stark choice of slashing rates still further or dropping coverage for thousands of residents...
...essential in concluding the peace, and they will remain essential in making it last. NATO has drawn up plans for committing some 60,000 of its ground troops as Bosnian peacekeepers. The force's mission will be to supervise the provisions of the ceasefire and ensure that the combatants withdraw to established lines. Without an international presence on the ground, mutual distrust would in all likelihood lead to a breakdown in the fragile accord. The NATO force guarantees each side that the peace will be upheld and has the strength to enforce it should opposition emerge...
...aspect in which the film could be clearer is Camille's dissatisfaction with Martin. At first, Camille and Martin's relationship seems mutually rewarding. Yet, almost immediately after Camille meets Petra, she starts visibly to withdraw from him. The transition from satisfied heterosexuality to accepted homosexuality seems too abrupt...
...classmates handed out an innocuous looking ditto: "How to Use a Latex Condom Properly." The sixth of 12 steps reads, "Place condom on erect penis prior to any contact." Step 7: "Roll condom down to base of penis." Step 9: "After ejaculation hold condom at base of penis and withdraw slowly before erection is lost." Gotta love that class instruction--reading, writing and wrist action...
...begin arriving in Bosnia within days of an agreement. I-FOR will be instructed to separate the warring armies in Bosnia along 4-km-wide cease-fire zones. Simultaneously, warring parties will begin to reveal to I-FOR the location of all minefields and booby traps, vacate territory and withdraw their heavy weapons to cantonment areas. Each side will furnish maps depicting the positions of all fortifications, ammunition dumps, command headquarters, communications networks, antiaircraft artillery and radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right...