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Page 137 - The performance of these services is not an end in itself, but rather a means to an end.
Page 253 - ... city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is to be performed...
Page 463 - The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of health facilities construction costs. Such study shall include consideration of the feasibility of reducing the cost of constructing health facilities constructed with assistance provided under the Public Health Service Act, particularly with respect to innovative techniques, new materials, and the possible waiver of unnecessarily costly Federal standards. The study shall be completed, and a report shall be submitted to the Congress, within one year...
Page 51 - Finally, the National Commission on Productivity and the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Commission — both tripartite agencies with labor, management, and public representatives — are actively engaged in developing approaches to raise labor and management productivity in the construction industry. These efforts should also begin to pay off in the near future.
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Page 1 - Act, particularly with respect to innovative techniques, new materials, and the possible waiver of unnecessarily costly Federal standards, and to report its findings to the Congress in November 1972.
Page 102 - Pre-paid group practice may be broadly defined as a medical care delivery system which accepts responsibility for the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services for a defined population.
Page 197 - Secretariat for the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, the recommendations from the research should be presented to these other groups simultaneously with the presentation to HEW.
Page 257 - The Secretary shall, within three years after the effective date of this Act, report to the Congress his recommendations for legislation to avoid unnecessary duplication and to achieve coordination between this Act and other Federal laws.
Page 107 - States mainly provides coverage of hospital care and of physicians' services associated with hospitalization. Coverage of other types of health care is much less extensive, both in terms of the number of people with some coverage and the proportion of charges met by...