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...crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts. The simpler versions included billing Medicaid for prescriptions that were never filled or substituting cheaper generic drugs while billing Medicaid for higher-priced alternatives. But the operation also did a brisk business in reselling drugs. A doctor, for example, would prescribe medicine for a healthy Medicaid beneficiary, who would fill the prescription at a crooked pharmacy. The "patient" would then sell the medicine for about 10% of its value to a "diverter," who would repackage and resell it, often on the black market in Puerto Rico...
...even Bush's top advisers know for sure. For now, they say, Perot is drawing votes almost exclusively from the ranks of disaffected, but largely registered, Democrats and Republicans -- not the disenfranchised. But that could change, and if it does, the White House isn't keen to make registration simpler...
...mere 190 sparsely printed pages? For one thing, she never describes the horrors of drugs or the excitement of creating a magazine. For all her vaunted feminism, she is too absorbed in self-pity to make her story real or dramatic to others. Or the answer may be simpler and sadder: the eloquence needed to share a complex life was far beyond her capacity to write...
...colossal central coffee shop. The French words aren't too hard to pronounce, really. But the less ambitious have taken to labeling the cafe "ABP." After all, these are the '90s, and short attention spans and busy lives have reduced rules of pronunciation to a single concept: the simpler, the better...
...compromise was a growing fear on both sides that continued bloodshed would severely damage the economy by frightening away tourists and foreign investors. It simply is not as easy for the military to maintain control of the affluent and educated Thailand of today as it was in the simpler peasant society that the nation was once, but will never be again...