nonsystem

In a nutshell, America's health care system, according to many experts, is a nonsystem.

And the present hodgepodge system (or nonsystem) simply has no logic to support it.

It is a human nonsystem really, called patient-doctor communications.

It is a system which is really a nonsystem."

You will see the existing nonsystem groups.

The Shadows' nonsystem encourages every citizen to frustrate Flattery when they see the chance.

But on the scale of an anarchic nonsystem of 15,000 school districts, more remains to despair than to celebrate."

And there is the sort of nonsystem system pioneered by Southwest Airlines in which passengers board in the order they arrive, with no assigned seats.

It's time for physicians and patients to have the courage to publicly support health care as a right; lacking this principle, our current nonsystem will continue to implode.

One was the rigid system of gold-linked fixed-exchange rates; the other, which followed, was in effect a nonsystem, when countries abandoned control of currencies to the markets.

I have met only three types of Americans, who, given the facts, prefer this country's nonsystem: doctors, employees of the health insurance industry and the politicians who receive contributions from the other two.

He once called federal sentencing "a nonsystem in which every judge is a law unto himself or herself and the sentence a defendant gets depends on the judge he or she gets."

All this makes van Kemenade raise the core question: "Can China survive as a unitary state with a strong central government. . . . Or is China doomed to a permanent nonsystem of central-local rivalry?"

ACT was first developed during the early 1970s-the heyday of deinstitutionalization, when large numbers of patients were being discharged from state-operated psychiatric hospitals to an underdeveloped, poorly integrated "nonsystem" of community services characterized by serious "gaps" and "cracks."

And here we come to the problem created by our nonsystem system, in which matters of teaching and curriculum in any given school or school district reflect not some broadly shared set of principles about schooling but the preferences and standards of that community.