They wanted a way to keep closer tabs on the portion of Medicare that's funded by general taxes and Medicare premiums.
That prompted a new effort inside the diamond industry to keep closer check on the individual diamond traders who supply companies like De Beers and Ascorp In Angola.
To keep in closer touch with customers, Qian Hu began selling pet supplies and opening stores.
Stricter data-protection and other rules are also pushing firms to keep a closer watch on information.
Though she is now an adult, he said, he plans to keep a closer eye on Georgina than before.
Koch's cardiologist wanted to keep a closer eye on the 88-year-old, who was also showing an iron deficiency, spokesman George Arzt said.
Google may have enough cash to play around but as its earnings suggest, it does have to keep a closer eye on the bottom line.
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Rather, he just needs to keep a closer eye on time commitments, scheduling board meetings a year in advance, for instance, so they don't overlap, he says.
These help firms keep much closer track of orders, inventories and the like, and so help them to determine faster and more accurately when extra staff are needed.
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The game never explains why you have such long yardage, but it does keep the game closer.
The move was designed, he says, to keep management in closer touch with its mine operations in Bangka and other islands.
But the new moves do mean that Beijing will be able to keep a much closer eye on poor banking practice and local shenanigans.
Late last year, an analysis by the Boston Consulting Group predicted that 2015 will be a "tipping point" when it will make more sense for many industries to keep their plants closer to home.
Analysts have said that as regulations and wages increase in places like China, and as U.S. workers gain expertise in tech manufacturing, it will increasingly make more sense for U.S. companies to keep their plants closer to home.
But ask a closer to keep a game tied or within a run in a key situation, the adrenaline often deserts him.
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The FPC has overall responsibility for financial regulation in the UK and is part of a new order of regulation designed to keep the banks under closer scrutiny.
New Zealand all-rounder Franklin then received support from Ian Saxelby, who helped keep the scoreboard ticking closer to the target until given out lbw after tea to Claude Henderson for 17.
Hence the need for an avant-garde to keep the ideal of ever closer union alive.
The Framers also called upon posterity to carry on their work -- to keep our country moving forward and bring us ever closer to a more perfect Union.
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It may not be precisely as outlined in the Mail on Sunday, but re-negotiate EU membership, forge closer trading links with the United States, keep the pound, cut taxation?
The crucial question now is whether European governments should put their drive towards ever closer union on hold, or whether they should keep moving in the direction of a federal superstate.
She plans to keep up the fight, and said the controversy has drawn the community closer together.
Today we are moving one step closer to knocking down the barriers to the services that can help keep American women healthy.
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On that understanding, or perhaps to keep Mr Blair honest, he has allowed himself to be enticed into an ever closer but still incomplete liaison with Labour.
Are you inching closer to actually offering an analysis of it, or are you are really going to keep spinning the same old spin?
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In an attempt to keep latency down, Onlive has opened a new European server facility in Luxembourg, placing its computing systems closer to the people that are going to be using it.
With the same labor force participation as on Inauguration Day in January, 2009 (which would be closer to a real recovery), that would require 5.5 million new jobs just to keep up with the aforementioned population growth.
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