It points out that these will exercise only weak control over the 50% of their budgets that they spend on acute care.
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"Time and again, we have seen poor design, poor implementation and weak cost control, " he said.
It was also that the commission's president, Jacques Santer, was too weak to control them.
Beefing up the woefully weak cost-control mechanisms in the health bill will help (and might impress independent voters).
At the same time, over-sensitivity sets in because the brain's control mechanisms are weak.
Mr Peters and his colleagues see no evidence so far that carbon-control policies, weak as they are, are shifting production to less regulated countries.
For JPM seems to be suffering from internecine warfare, a faulty reporting systems, m a weak tracking ability on risk control and holes galore in its risk management edifice.
There may be plenty of reasons why teams and leagues have trouble with cost control, though weak-kneed management that tends to buckle under these kinds of ultimatums are certainly a big one.
"The connections between the brain's executive control centers and emotional centers are weak in people with severe anger problems, " explains Gonzalez-Heydrich, chief of Psychopharmacology at Boston Children's and senior investigator on the study.
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They want more aggressive control of sea lions that feast on weak salmon runs and precious sturgeon.
Banks with lower market shares may struggle to produce profits during weak quarters, which makes it more important that they can control pay.
Nor can it reverse the deteriorating state fiscal crisis caused by weak economies and exacerbated by insanely high pensions and out of control spending policies.
Unless it succeeds, every time banks' borrowing costs rise, the response will not be satisfaction that investors are discriminating against weak firms, but dread that things may spiral out of control again.
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Two companies long known for weak product innovation, success driven by market domination and distribution control tactics, are partnering to take on the two most innovative companies in digital technology as they create entirely new markets with new technologies.
The House flipped to Republican control and, had it not been for a few weak Republican candidates, the Senate would have also.
Many city residents, after years of budget cutbacks and weak municipal services, said they were resigned to their fate under state control.
Weak and vapid as the parties may seem nationally, they still wield control in America's counties, and even more in the cities.
More competition means De Beers can no longer control prices the way it used to: by buying diamonds when markets are weak and selling when they strengthen.
After the market closed Thursday Conceptus, which makes a nonincisional permanent birth control method, cut its second-quarter and full-year outlooks, citing the weak economy and high unemployment, which it said is causing would-be patients to put off their doctor visits.
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