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COST-CONTAINMENT

Specialty Definition: COST-CONTAINMENT

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Agriculture

Refers to statutory provisions in the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 that require state agencies to contain WIC program costs, particularly with respect to the cost of infant formula sold through the program. See competitive bidding and sole source bids. (for WIC). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: COST-CONTAINMENT

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Business

Despite a much longer debate than in the United States and the promotion of parallel imports, health care reform policy in Germany remains focused on cost-containment while trying to retain health care quality levels. (references)

Whereas the proprietary pharmaceuticals production industry is still struggling with the drastic decrease in local sales as a result of cost-containment measures in the Statutory Health Insurance (GKV), most companies specialized in generic production registered significant growth in sales and market share. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: COST-CONTAINMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-m-n-n-n-o-o-s-t-t-t"

-3 letters: concomitants, containments, contestation.

-4 letters: anointments, cantonments, concomitant, connections, containment, contentions, noncontacts, ostentation.

-5 letters: anointment, attentions, cantonment, connection, consociate, consonance, contention, contestant, continents, inconstant, mentations, misconnect, nonactions, nonascetic, noncontact.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COST-CONTAINMENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 53 54 2D 43 4F 4E 54 41 49 4E 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 00101101 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#45 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0053 0054 002D 0043 004F 004E 0054 0041 0049 004E 004D 0045 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37495354153749485435434847394854

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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