The Times reports today that Medicare has agreed to change a longstanding requirement that beneficiaries show some medical improvement to qualify for skilled nursing and therapy services at home.
As Robert Pear reported in The Times on Tuesday, under the agreement, the Obama administration will end a longstanding practice of requiring many beneficiaries to show they are likely to improve before Medicare will pay for skilled nursing or therapy services.
They are beneficiaries of a longstanding regulation in New York City that says that once children are registered at a public school, they can remain until they graduate, regardless of where in the city they live after registration day.
These officials, still struggling to understand the federal law, predict that many beneficiaries will be confused as longstanding arrangements are disrupted and replaced with private Medicare plans offering different packages of drug benefits under different sets of rules.
Unicef's longstanding Halloween fund-raising campaign made it a natural beneficiary.
Mr Báez, a former bank clerk and longstanding friend of Kirchner, has been the largest single beneficiary of public-works contracts in Patagonia in the decade in which the Kirchners have ruled Argentina.
Ms. Brewer's order reversed a longstanding practice by the state's Transportation Department of giving driver's licenses to beneficiaries of deferred-deportation action, like asylum seekers, by accepting their work permits as proof of their authorized presence.
The gates started to swing open in the 1960s, when courts in California allowed disgruntled beneficiaries to sue lawyers for making mistakes in a will, overriding the longstanding rule against suits by nonclients (perhaps because in this case the client was underground).
The 2000 Census reconfirmed the longstanding population shift from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, with Republicans in Congress the likely beneficiaries.
But how longstanding is longstanding?
Adidas is a longstanding partner.
