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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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"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest, " says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
We're talking about an extraordinary set of circumstances with an extremely high threshold which ensures they will not be used often.
But three days ago the High Court refused permission, saying the claim fell short of the "high threshold" necessary to block extradition.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
For elite athletes, the threshold may be as high as 80%, while sedentary people may hit it at 35%.
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.
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.
Q.s of 82 seemingly below the threshold necessary to graduate from high school.
"The threshold for prosecution has to be high, " he added.
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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%.
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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They wrote the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' as a threshold, but left it to us to determine what transgressions met this standard.
Note too the fresh near-five-year high for the DAX index on the threshold of renewed recession and notwithstanding the weekend theatrics in Rome.
Previous governments have tip-toed close to the nuclear threshold, but pulled back for fear of the high price India would pay for breaking the nuclear taboo.
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%.
The threshold for being liable for this levy should be set high enough to exclude most of the working population.
Unfortunately, the Federal Trade Commission is unlikely to get involved in this case, because the market-concentration threshold they use in hospital-merger cases is too high.
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The government had said the threshold for dissolving Parliament would be 55% - high enough to stop either of the governing parties triggering an election without the other.
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.
Tenet Healthcare and Denbury Resources this week became the latest high-yield issuers to capture coupon rates that were below the 5% threshold, and in doing so they logged some new records.
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In the high performance-driving classes, drivers work on autocross, skid pad control and threshold braking, as well as spend lap time on the racetrack.
The threshold for middle-class success -- sound education and moral training -- is not high, but even on these measures our nation is falling short.
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