Word: systemization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Predictably, insurance companies are not pleased with the new measures, claiming that obtaining permission for every transaction will send administrative costs through the roof - and could cut consumers off from potentially lifesaving clinics and screenings. "Increasingly, our health care system relies on information to flow between providers, hospitals, physicians and health plans," Kristin Stewart of the American Association of Health Plans, an umbrella organization, told the Washington Post...
...kidnapping and murder of some 70 people in the 'Caravan of Death' in 1973 [an episode in which senior military officers toured the country removing Pinochet opponents from prisons and summarily executing them]. But there are more than 200 charges against Pinochet working their way through the legal system. So even as they rule on this, the courts are receiving more evidence relating to other cases...
...certainly creates some political tension, particularly between the military and government. But President Lagos has handled the matter skillfully, saying over and over that the matter is in the hands of the judicial system, and that his government will accept whatever the courts decide. If you read between the lines, it's unlikely that Pinochet will ever actually face trial. The medical checks and interrogations obviously touch the once untouchable general, and the military doesn't like this. But they also know nothing is actually happening to the general. Even if he's under house arrest...
...problem of managing global affairs is made much more difficult by the diminishing power of the state. The Cold War, artificially, managed to organize almost every regional conflict in the world into a global system of conflict, which was managed at the top by two states that had an overarching interest in avoiding instability that could drag them into a very dangerous confrontation. After it ended, many of the states of the old Soviet empire began to collapse, accelerating crime, lawlessness, tribal violence and terrorism. And the problem acknowledged in "Global Trends 2015" is that governments don't have very...
...course of just fifteen minutes, Frazier, who mans the Amtrak information counter, explained the inner workings of Boston's subway system to harried passengers approximately 10 separate times...