Word: scale
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...piracy only looks like the free-and-easy island life. It's actually hard work, because it lacks efficient economies of scale. Once you start seriously churning out the product, you quickly become very visible: warehouses, trucks, employee payrolls--it all adds up. The sweet charm of piracy is free, daring little "us" vs. big nasty "them." But any "us" that gets large enough is automatically a "them." Bill Gates was once a hippie programmer, a college dropout from Seattle. But a hippie with a billion dollars is no longer a hippie; he's a billionaire. A hippie with...
That means, first and foremost, altering Aetna's aggressive corporate culture, which has felt free to second guess doctors' decisions. "We have the scale and scope to be a really good business. But we should be managing by exception--our presumption should be that 80% to 90% of the medical community is doing a good job." Aetna may follow the lead of United HealthCare, which last fall ended precertification--the infuriating process by which doctors must get approval from a distant voice on the phone for many tests and treatments...
...froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...
...form that evolved in ?70s. "The endless round of one-day matches has taken its toll on the players who see pots of money coming in, but not too much reaching their pockets," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Michael Fathers. Rather than being paid on a scale comparable with soccer players' wages, say (let alone the sums earned in most U.S. professional sports), cricketers are encouraged to seek sponsors and burnish their income with product endorsements. That has led a growing number of players to take money from bookmakers for predicting the outcome of matches, and in some cases...
...whether legacies and minority applicants receive undue special consideration, Fitzsimmons says that being the child of a parent who went to the College is "only a feather on a scale"--a factor taken into consideration at the end of the process if all other things are equal...