THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan).
By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote.
Medical necessity, by definition, refers to any health service that is "appropriate" for evaluating and treating a given condition.
One bureaucratic victim, the officials said, may be George Tenet, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose resignation is considered a necessity by many in the Administration.
This suggests a golden opportunity for Europe to make a virtue of necessity by pooling its access to much-cheaper IMF funding.
The invocation of two words — military necessity — by a commander in chief was usually all it took to silence a majority of the justices.
Knowing this, the Bush team tried to turn Iraq into a war of necessity by hyping the threat Saddam may have posed with W.M.D.
Indeed, one main hope of Hempel and his colleagues was to avoid difficulties with necessity by relying on the concepts of law and explanation.
And cars are seen as a luxury, rather than a necessity, by those consumers who have access to good public transportation.
Value of partnerships Another pointed out that partnerships were increasingly seen as a necessity by donors, and these partnerships needed to involve the private sector and academics, not simply five NGOs working together.
In Ohio, the state attorney general concluded last year that under current law, reviews of medical necessity by health insurance providers did not amount to the practice of medicine and were beyond the disciplinary reach of the state medical board.
