Wry adverts for mail order " objets de tat " will require prospective buyers to commit to exorbitant, protracted payment arrangements and demand they give up the opportunity to put right their error, once the thrill of actually holding a " Lady Diana Full English Breakfast Plate of Hope " has faded.

For institutional care, such as hospital and nursing home care, Medicare uses prospective payment systems.

The New Jersey experiment continued for three years, with additional cadres of hospitals being added to the number of institutions each year until all hospitals in the Garden State were dealing with this prospective payment system.

The prospective payment system implemented as DRGs had been designed to limit the share of hospital revenues derived from the Medicare program budget, and in spite of doubtful results in New Jersey, it was decided in 1983 to impose DRGs on hospitals nationwide.

The prospective payment system in U. S. Medicare for reimbursing hospital care promotes shorter LOS by paying the same amount for procedures, regardless of days spent in the hospital.

However, a prospective user must go through an application process administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), which requires a Federal tax payment of USD 200. 00 and a thorough criminal background check.

Once the original tour guide or salesman gives the prospective buyer the pitch and price, the " TO " is sent in to drop the price and secure the down payment.

Initially he combined continued sales of his stories with work as a door-to-door salesman, which began after a commission for his first novel, Starhiker, was not finalized by his prospective publisher and he had become indebted, expecting payment for the piece.

Among the standards that a prospective missionary must demonstrate adherence to are: regular attendance at church meetings, regular personal prayer, regular study of the scriptures, adherence to the law of chastity ( sexual purity ), adherence to the Word of Wisdom ( code of health and nutrition ), payment of tithing, spiritual diligence and testimony of God.

Offered 3, 000 pounds and an annuity to begin at Burghley's death, the prospective groom wanted immediate payment of the annuity.

At the core of SFA is a contact management system for tracking and recording every stage in the sales process for each prospective client, from initial contact to final disposition.

The Inns of Court continued but became less effective and admission to the bar still did not require any significant educational activity or examination, therefore in 1846 Parliament examined the education and training of prospective barristers and found the system to be inferior to the legal education provided in Europe and the United States.

Generally, a prospective will be required to have some experience with the computer system he or she is expected to manage.

In the post-War period, with the growing popularity of the " Last Night ", the only way to obtain tickets was through a postal ballot system where prospective buyers submitted an application well in advance, along with a stamped and addressed reply envelope.

Several big retail names, including Marks & Spencer, adopted online recruitment at around the same time but have set aside a telephone recruitment system as an alternative for prospective employees who do not have internet access.

World leaders began negotiating the terms for an international loan to Austria's central government in order to sustain its financial system ; however, Laval blocked the proposed package for nationalistic reasons, demanding that France receive a series of diplomatic concessions in exchange for its support, including renunciation of a prospective German-Austrian customs union.

When implementing the mobile sales force automation application or during the first stage of systems development life cycle, project teams will need to evaluate how prospective solutions comprising mobile devices, software and support infrastructure and carrier services are packaged to deliver optimal system usability, manageability and integrative abilities, as well as high scalability, reliability and performance.

The Inns of Court continued but became less effective and admission to the bar still did not require any significant educational activity or examination, therefore in 1846 the Parliament examined the education and training of prospective barristers and found the system to be inferior to the legal education provided in the United States.

By the 1730s, the rating volunteer-per-order was phased out and replaced with a system where prospective midshipmen served as servants for officers.

The Route B system, where applicants applied for up to three art and design choices in preference order, was scrapped in 2009, with all prospective students now using the standard admissions procedure.

Six American teachers from Dunwoody were sent with Dr. Towner to work with indigenous Indonesians in making training available to prospective and interested teachers in the Indonesian technical school system.

This established a powerful network effect as prospective users strongly preferred the system where their friends were likely to be.

Love bombing is a tactic often employed by cults ( or any religious, political or other group of like-minded individuals who may not have a mainstream belief system ) as a way of luring prospective members.

An employee referral program is a system where existing employees recommend prospective candidates for the job offered, and if the suggested candidate is hired, the employee who referred receives a cash bonus.

The prospective short circuit current ( PSCC ) is the highest electric current which can exist in a particular electrical system under short-circuit conditions.

Before using the system it is necessary for a prospective user's callsign to be validated.

Walker has compared the present-day United States to the Roman Empire in its decline, saying the U. S. government is on a " burning platform " of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, expensive overcommitments to government provided health care, swelling Medicare and Social Security costs, the enormous expense of a prospective universal health care system, and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.

The prospective first buyer and operator ( i. e., a country's defense authorities and the relevant military units ) gets to thoroughly test the weapons system over some protracted amount of time — in order to gain a reasonable degree of confidence as to whether the system actually performs to the agreed-upon requirements before contracts for mass production are signed.

In April 2009, an investigation took place into the tampering of ballot boxes and abuse of the postal vote system used for the selection of the prospective Labour candidate for Erith and Thamesmead.

If a particular trait is not a concern for voters or prospective candidates ( for instance, eye color ), then, if the system does not introduce other biases, an elected body will resemble a random sampling of the voters instead.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community.

Neither are shelters, because there is one to meet the needs of every camper or prospective camper.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

However, there is sometimes a lack of understanding by researchers in developed countries about the actual needs of prospective beneficiaries in developing countries.

There is fairly consistent evidence from prospective studies that recent life events and interpersonal relationships contribute to the likelihood of onsets and recurrences of bipolar mood episodes, as they do for onsets and recurrences of unipolar depression.

In case the line is busy, prospective recruits are asked to meditate on the five magic words for a few minutes, and then try calling again.

" It is normal procedure for a priest to ask the prospective bride and groom about their plans to have children before officiating at their wedding.

This code requires franchisors to produce a disclosure document which must be given to a prospective franchisee at least 14 days before the franchise agreement is entered into.

In Spain, where the use of fans ( called " abanicos ") is still very popular today, ladies used them to communicate with suitors or prospective suitors without their family or chaperon finding out.

The fulfilment of the promise to each patriarch depends on having a male heir, and the story is constantly complicated by the fact that each prospective mother – Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel – is barren.

The prospective aspect is a combination of tense and aspect that indicates the action is in preparation to take place.

Used to + VERB is a past habitual, as in " I used to go to school ", and going to / gonna + VERB is a prospective, a future situation highlighting current intention or expectation, as in " I'm going to go to school next year ".

Coverage is typically for mortality as a result of accident, illness or disease but may extend to include infertility, in-transit loss, veterinary fees, and prospective foal.

In vitro fertilization is used to allow spermatozoa to fertilize eggs in a culture dish before implanting the resulting embryo or embryos into the uterus of the prospective mother.

The voir-dire is usually set with 16 prospective jurors, which the prosecution and defense may dismiss the 6 persons they do not desire to serve on the jury.

A form is sent to prospective jurors to pre-qualify them by asking the recipient to answer questions about citizenship, disabilities, ability to understand the English language, and whether they have any conditions that would excuse them from being a juror.

Based on numerous prospective randomized controlled trials, the approach has proven to be beneficial in reducing post-operative morbidities such as wound infections and incisional hernias ( especially in morbidly obese patients ), and is now deemed safe when applied to surgery for cancers such as cancer of colon.

" A general lack of education and experience about business is a significant challenge to prospective entrepreneurs ," was the report on Native American entrepreneurship by the Northwest Area Foundation in 2004.

It is also customary for political party members to form wings for current or prospective party members, most of which fall into the following two categories: