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It could be that doctors are rationing health care—refusing to schedule appointments.

Because it has, in the past, been a tool of racism and colonialism, and in the present, is a means of rationing health care.

The British and French, who would soon leave, in the meantime, had to impose oil rationing.

And the Republican attacks on the health-care bill are replete with paranoia about rationing and death panels.

In the theoretical model, there is no such thing as unemployment, no such thing as credit rationing.

At present, it is only attached to my command for convenience of rationing and pay.

David Cooper gave Elysée brief instructions on rationing water, and the old man limped downstairs as the firing began again.

There being no system of rationing, only the well-to-do could buy the dearer necessities of ordinary life.

Still, it might be a good plan to sack all the servants before rationing comes in, and engage deaf-mutes.

Such hampering restrictions as conscription to fight or work, or rationing, have been removed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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