Word: access
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...suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster-induced network overloading - are down 13 percent. The numbers suggest that wherever you put young music lovers together with high-speed Internet access, music sales will suffer...
...still support capital punishment, the number is down to 66%, from a high of 80% in 1994. But fully 92% support making DNA testing available to those convicted before its widespread use. At the moment, only two states, New York and Illinois, insist on giving inmates on death row access to the new technology. Why the shift? Part of it may be the legacy of the country's lower crime rate--even though murder stats have registered a slight uptick in a few major cities (see box). The flurry of sentences overturned on the basis of DNA evidence is also...
...lawyer nodding off during a trial in which a man was sentenced to die. When Bush addressed the question, he said, "I'm absolutely confident that everybody that has been put to death is two things: one, they're guilty of the crime charged, and secondly, they had full access to our courts." When asked in the past what had been his biggest mistake in life, he didn't cite anything weightier than trading away Sammy Sosa from the Texas Rangers. Although he says he was quoted out of context, he was described in a profile as making...
...fights on--carefully. He was, for instance, willing to give TIME access to his office and his schedule--something that would have been unheard of a year ago in Iran. But he would not offer an interview--something that remains too politically sensitive...
...gatekeeper means more direct access to care. Recently, PPOS have emerged as the leaders of the pack. Most adopted a $10 co-payment to MDs within their networks, originally an HMO feature. Unlike HMOs, the PPOS do not require their doctors to seek approval before performing services. PPOS have also become more competitive as HMO premiums have risen...