In France, however, the procedure, which is virtually paid for by the government, must be under the watchful eye of the medical establishment.
The money they have already earned from their cup run alone would virtually pay the rent at Cheltenham for another year.
Following economic unification, the countries of the former communist bloc were virtually unable to pay for equipment in hard currency, with disastrous consequences for eastern German industry.
The town's residents, he said, are happy to splice into any passing cable — the rat's nest of wiring above every alley illustrates how it is that everyone has cable TV even though virtually nobody pays for it.
Countries like Kenya have integrated systems that allow consumers to pay for virtually anything by mobile phone, leaping past the US in offering that technological promise to virtually everyone.
South Koreans can pay for virtually anything with credit cards: parking tickets, highway tolls, pizza deliveries or a 2,000-won bill at a street-corner noodle shop.
A second major factor accounting for high health spending per capita in the United States is the significantly higher prices Americans pay for virtually all health care services and products.
Mr. Cramer details the enormous extent of the public adulation of DiMaggio, the way he was so worshiped that he came to see it as natural that he would pay for virtually nothing.
A little more than a decade ago, China had a public health care system, but it has collapsed, and now people there pay for virtually all their care out of pocket.
The town officials figured the rugged beauty of the cape, with its black cliffs plunging down into a fitful sea, and the seals that inhabit the offshore rocks were a sure draw, and they persuaded Tokyo to pay for virtually all of the costs of construction.
