At this stage, the cost of implementing health IT is a high threshold for many providers to cross.
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Having to get 40% of votes before being reimbursed is a high threshold.
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In addition to giving the legislature's upper house this direct role in treaty-making, the Framers enshrined in the Constitution a high threshold for such consent: Not just a simple majority but fully two-thirds of the Senate must give their approval for any treaty to be ratified.
The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.
This strikes me as a pretty high threshold given that for a jury to convict there should evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant is guilty.
The accounts won't rival 401(k)s in size, but for many people they will become a significant asset, thanks to the miracle of compounding interest. (After a certain high threshold, some people may opt to put a piece of this money into bonds or even stocks.) HSAs will make insurance more affordable for small businesses, which will be a boon for many of today's uninsured.
"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest, " says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
It is fine going on about having a high pain threshold, but it is just the sheer physicality of the game that can be the real test.
In a sign of the popular unease raised by the pact, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which has virtually no parliamentary clout, still managed to collect over 120, 000 signatories to a petition asking the government for a referendum on it (though Taiwan's high threshold for referendum participation means that such a thing may not get off the ground).
They wrote the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' as a threshold, but left it to us to determine what transgressions met this standard.
In the case of Italy, the yield or de facto interest rate on its five-year debt went through the punitive and unaffordable 7% threshold again early this morning and is now a high 6.9%.
Sometimes what happens in these high-profile conversions is that the exuberant athlete reaches a threshold and burns out.
Antidoping officials say the test was new at the time, so the threshold for triggering a positive result for the banned substance was set conservatively high, and would later be lowered.
One might argue that because this was a high-level crisis, and that many had already lost their lives, the threshold for private action to support a public cause in this case was clear.
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Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) points out that such calculations should take account of the behavioural changes the tax causes: an IFS study claimed the new rate could diminish revenues, because it provides a disincentive to those close to the threshold to carry on earning and makes mobile high earners less likely to come to Britain.
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And if ministers want to do what investors and creditors apparently want them to do, which is to force a serious recapitalisation of big French banks, the minimum capital threshold would have to be set high, at 8%.
The proposals relate only to England, and appear to mirror those introduced under a devolved government in Scotland: here there is free social care, but the threshold is set relatively high to include only those with the most severe needs.
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