Obamacare contains many incentives to raise efficiency, such as penalizing hospitals for high readmission rates, but there's little evidence productivity as a whole has risen enough to tip the overall trend.
Meanwhile, the bilateral balance between the two countries improved slightly in July, as American exports to China grew faster than imports from China, narrowing the monthly deficit.So naturally, now is the time for this:Frustrated members of Congress may vote in the coming weeks on legislation penalizing Chinese imports for Beijing's artificially-low currency.
Some tracker Web sites encourage seeding by penalizing peers who do not seed their files after their downloads are complete.
Inflation distributes the burden of war costs in an arbitrary manner, penalizing persons with fixed incomes.
There was the effort to keep government from reviewing, before publication, any manuscript, and there was the effort to keep government from penalizing, after publication, any text that expressed forbidden sentiments.
Duncan has consistently emphasized improving the quality of teachers by measuring and rewarding — or penalizing — them based on performance.
She seems to praise the Swedish approach — penalizing patrons and traffickers but not sex workers — without acknowledging the opposition to this legal framework by sex workers themselves.
The city, according to Debra Zumwalt, Stanford's general counsel and lead negotiator, added "many millions of dollars in penalties that were not in the original proposal, including penalizing Stanford for failure to obtain approvals on a certain schedule, even if the delays were the fault of the city and not Stanford..
It allows you to vote for the party or candidate you genuinely prefer without penalizing the one you'd settle for (the dreaded Nader Effect).
I wonder if you could stamp it out by penalizing the country of someone who tests positive.
Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
