Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make a commendable start, and for a few months the hyperinflation he inherited was subsiding. But in early December his program of wage-and-price strictures began to crumble. Interest rates on short-term bank deposits soared out of control, to 600% monthly. Nervous investors began to turn their assets into dollars, and the flight from the austral began in earnest...
...beginning of the season, but we've improved, too," said Gaudet, whose squad has not had a home league game since Kenneally's goal gave Brown a tie against the Crimson two months ago. "We can't worry about them. We can only concentrate on what we can control--our effort, our preparation, our enthusiasm and our desire...
...Difference Principle should have a powerful intuitive appeal for citizens of a democratic society. Since none of us can control the random factors of genetics, family background, and plain dumb luck that determine our earning power and financial resources, it seems clearly unjust to let the disadvantaged "lose" in an economic lottery which no one has any power to avoid...
...requiring staff members to consider a drug's cost as well as its efficacy before they fill out prescription forms, and state Medicaid agencies are trying to hold the line by refusing to pay for some high-priced nostrums. Corporations with major medical bills are taking their own cost- control approach. General Motors has started direct negotiations with pharmaceutical firms to lower prescription-drug rates, and Rockwell International has opened its own pharmacy at an Iowa plant. "We're seeing the leveling out of the market power between purchasers and producers," says Stephen Schondelmeyer, director of the Pharmaceutical Economic Research...
Health-maintenance organizations have contributed to the downward price pressure. Set up to provide medical coverage for members at a fixed fee, HMOs control pharmacy expenses by using only the most cost-effective drugs and demanding discounts from manufacturers. In 1984 less than 4% of employees surveyed by the Health Insurance Association of America were enrolled in such health-care plans. By 1988 the percentage had risen...