Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where D'Amato is in charge of recruiting, promoting and bankrolling Senate candidates nationwide. Smith isn't up to speed on a project. "Get with it!" D'Amato roars. "Get with the program! No! Get your brain in synch." He tries to restrain himself, but it's hard. He cracks the whip about fund raising--"I'm not happy! Speed it up!"--then checks on an event. "How much we gonna gross? Hell, you gotta do better! Fifty percent of that? All right. It's better than a stick...
...small-size King Canute solution is the one most often resorted to in past attempts to restrain Medicare costs: ever tighter restrictions on payments to doctors, hospitals and so on. There is nothing wrong with squeezing health-care suppliers; Medicare has been a gold mine for them, and the government--as the nation's largest purchaser of health care--has the right and duty to get the best deal it can. But past efforts have been ham-handed and may have reached their limits. And without a market mechanism at work, it is impossible to say whether a provider...
...available choices. You could choose an HMO, a PPO, traditional fee-for-service medicine or whatever. If your choice cost more than the value of the voucher, you would pay the difference. If it cost less, you might get a rebate. Competition to sign you up is supposed to restrain prices and guarantee quality. The health-care system for federal employees works roughly like this, and it works well. Last year premiums actually went down...
...First Amendment applies only to attempts by government to restrain expression. It says nothing about decisions made by private media companies, and it does nothing to prevent them from choosing which songs or programs they will or will not promote. Five years ago, Simon & Schuster canceled plans to publish American Psycho, the sado-chic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, after advance complaints about passages detailing the sexual torture and mutilation of women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount...
Some media execs claim there isn't much that companies can do to restrain artists once they have them on their rosters. "Artists make records, not record companies,'' says David Geffen, the film and record producer who is now one-third of DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. "No record company tells them what to record...