Famous Quotes & Sayings

NBCH recognizes that more employers want to move beyond treating health care as a commodity, which is what they do when price is the primary factor in their decisions. Informed employers are looking for resources to help them make use of quality and other performance metrics that are now available. The good news is that improving the quality of health care contributes to cost reduction as well. The eValue8 data is one more tool available to our members in determining the best health plan for their business and employees.

I was fortunate to have contact with a palliative nurse who was recovering from hip replacement surgery and would be available to me 24/7, ... I relied heavily on her, and she got me through it. Then after that I thought, there's something wrong with the system.

Derek Jeter

I was available to play yesterday. He wanted me to have the day off.

MSHA will use all available legal means to ensure the deterrent effect of penalties.

Motorcycle sales are gaining momentum in India as individuals consider that the main mode of transport, ... Incomes are on the rise, finance is available everywhere and that helps a motorcycle purchase.

Ruth Kelly

Mothers and fathers will have the certainty of knowing that whatever their background, high-quality early years education and childcare services will be available to support them and their children.

Meeting planners usually shop around, try and see what's out there. Now, if it's available they are booking it.

Scott Hamilton

MDA strongly supports a community's need to be ready for development and to have an inventory of available sites and locations. But traditionally the state hasn't invested in sites before a project is actually determined.

Olusegun Obasanjo

My joy knows no bounds, ... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

One measure is how many of our members will utilize the data available and, ultimately, if there will be a change in behavior at the consumer level.

Michael Grade

One estimate suggests that in 10 years time, 10 to 15 percent of all available new content could come from new providers, such as one-man bands, back-yard productions or people sharing a particular passion, such as fly-fishing.

John Roberts

Of course gender discrimination is a serious problem. It's a particular concern of mine and always has been. I grew up with three sisters, all of whom work outside the home. I married a lawyer who works outside the home. I have a young daughter who I hope will have all of the opportunities available to her without regard to any gender discrimination. There's no suggestion in anything that I've written of any resistance to the basic idea of full citizenship without regard to gender.

One thing we tried to do in our pay for performance plan was make it available not just to individual teachers but to schools where teachers work as a team to raise student performance.

My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.

Karine Vanasse

I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

Kara Swisher

'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.

Lucy Powell

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too.

Robert Wilson

. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

Jeff Raikes

There are nearly 300 million PC users out there now, and so that gives us a very, very broad market. So we can put far more, you know, ten times more into R&D of the operating system, yet make it available for one-tenth or less the price.

There are some rudimentary scanning functions now available in cell phones and those features should improve over time.

The onus is on Microsoft to explain, in its reply to the statement of objections today, precisely why and how making the source code available would bring it into compliance with the remedy.

The only way to increase (the available fish) is to have wild trout streams and wild fish to catch.

There are far more satisfying explanations for epidemic obesity. We have more calories available per capita per day than ever before in history. And more and more of those calories are packaged in highly processed, flavor-enhanced, processed foods.

Mike Sherman

There are definitely spots available to be had by certain players. That 53rd, 52nd, 51st, 50th spots are still wide open.

John Ashcroft

I believe that the ultimate sanction ought to be available here,

Castro has stated publicly that the universities (in Cuba) are available only to those who share his revolutionary beliefs.

Andrew Lewis

CB Richard Ellis' conclusion confirms the board's consistently stated view that the key opportunity available to enhance value for all Wyevale shareholders stems from more intensive use of our sites through higher performance retailing, not from break-up, 'sale and leaseback' or large scale redevelopment of sites.

But the technology that's available today is so much greater. (Tanner) could have easily missed something.

But the fact that there was a security breach is troubling, especially if there are no technical fixes available to protect the system,

But extreme measures can be prevented. If people don't make pet food, bird seed or garbage easily available to bears, they won't hang around.

Based on the fact that the mayor actually was available to do interviews and this was misreported in the paper, we, like the chief of police, are interested in a thorough review of the facts that were reported here.

Based on the clinical symptoms, it looks like bird flu. We have taken samples and the test result should be available in the next two or three days.

Basically this sub-concession will give them more control and it's important because it is the last available sub-concession. But the real issue for us is when their two casinos are going to be completed as there were some delays and changes to the development.