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  2. Major Insurer Planned to Limit Time of Anesthesia Coverage ...

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    In other words, if a procedure takes longer than expected, patients may wake up to an unexpected bill. But now, the company says the plan is no longer.

  3. Planning fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Opera House was expected to be completed in 1963. A scaled-down version opened in 1973, a decade later. The original cost was estimated at $7 million, but its delayed completion led to a cost of $102 million. [10] The Eurofighter Typhoon defense project took six years longer than expected, with an overrun cost of 8 billion euros. [10]

  4. Collocation - Wikipedia

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    In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.

  5. Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]

  6. Powell says taking 'longer than expected' for inflation to ...

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    Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that it will likely take longer to cut rates, saying it will take 'longer than expected' to achieve the confidence needed to get inflation down to the central bank ...

  7. The Strike Is Over, but It May Take Longer Than Expected for ...

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    The television industry won’t waste any time when it comes to getting back to work following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike. With a focus on broadcast shows, prep and pre-production are well ...

  8. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    A number of scientific naming schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long words. The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name Methionyl­threonyl threonyl . . . iso ­leucine for the protein also known as titin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. In nature ...

  9. EV batteries may last much longer than expected: Study - AOL

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    The shelf-life of electric vehicle (EV) batteries may be as much as 40 percent greater than previously assumed, a new study has found. Stanford University scientists uncovered this possibility by ...