But nationally, state medical boards have shown little interest in mandating added training in the use of potent pain medications or in screening patients for those prone to drug abuse.
(Those parts, it says, depend on the mandate adding healthier, cheaper people to insurance pools).
Over the years, AlixPartners has expanded beyond its initial mandate, adding more traditional management consulting work, so much so that turnarounds now constitute a minority of its business.
He said that the force should be deployed for a limited period and that it should have a clearly stated United Nations mandate, adding "It is our sovereign right to decide what countries should be a part of it".
A senior French official said that Mr. Chirac himself raised the subject of Iraq and ruled out any possibility of French troop participation there without a United Nations mandate, adding that Mr. Klaus did not directly respond.
"Mandates add cost," said Richard Coorsh, a spokesman for the association.
He said that he now believed that near-universal coverage could be achieved without a mandate, and added that the mandate he once supported was for basic catastrophic coverage, not comprehensive insurance.
"Geographic considerations as such have no part in the exercise of this legal mandate," he added.
But that again might be due to the limited scope of Mr. Greenhill's mandate, he added.
While Wren said the Braves have not made silence a club mandate, he added that the club would not intervene if the players decline to comment on Rocker.
