The monetary value attached to the examinations that exceed the median use rates suggests that there is a broad margin of intervention and the need for policy makers and managers to find new and more effective ways to control appropriateness.
January 31 2011 The writers Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko read from their respective new memoirs, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life," and "The Turquoise Ledge".
However, he passes over a very practical motive: he wanted to be a writer and, like many another of like ambition, needed privacy, quiet, and a "broad margin" where his mind could roam.
And through the first few pages of "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life," it seems Kingston has been doing exactly that.
When we crossed the stile into a field where a broad margin, perhaps 20 metres wide, had been allowed to lie fallow for birds and insects, we found ourselves walking into a late blooming of wild flowers.
Nationally, the Health Ministry reported 154 more infections and 7 more deaths today, bringing China's total to 2,753 confirmed cases and 122 fatalities, the highest in the world by a broad margin.
Mr. Hynes spoke of his surprising decision to reverse himself and run again against Kenneth P. Thompson, who had beaten him by a broad margin in the Democratic primary.
I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE, by Maxine Hong Kingston (Vintage International, $15).
Maxine Hong Kingston talks to David L. Ulin about her new memoir, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life".
But there might have been something uplifting about slowing down, about permitting "a broad margin of leisure," as Thoreau said.
