Word: controller
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...something will be missing this time around. In an effort to show the real Andrew Goldstein - if such a person exists - his lawyers have taken him off the medication that keeps his schizophrenia under control. So the jurors will not see a chemically calmed defendant this time; what they will see is most likely an anxious, disturbed man forced to wallow in his illness to somehow satisfy the standards of justice. How this long and ineffably sad story came to such a pass says volumes about a woefully underfunded mental health system and a state government in denial...
...case he becomes too erratic to testify at all. That request was denied. They must now hope that he can hang in there, and that when the time comes he seem plausibly insane, but not so much so that the court has to take over - a kind of self-control that could be daunting even for a normal person being tried for murder...
...does not employ a franchise system, but rather gives control to a manager for each retail outlet...
Harvard Pilgrim, the largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in Massachusetts and the insurer of 1.1 million state citizens, was brought under the control of the state on Jan. 4, after it sustained nearly $200 million in losses...
...calls for no outside investments or infusions of cash in the HMO. Instead Harvard Pilgrim will follow the business plan it has used while under state control...