"This is not a cost-containment measure by any means."

The common measures are enrollment and tuition increases, with little emphasis on cost-containment measures.

He argues this is a result of opposition from faculty, who fear that cost-containment measures could threaten long standing traditions.

Some legislators are also concerned that many cost-containment measures will simply shift the burden of indigent health care to other government agencies.

And the portion is growing: without cost-containment measures, it is expected to top 18 percent by the year 2000.

Assembly leaders have said they do not want to consider the cost-containment measures as part of the budget talks.

While operating costs increased, they were lower as a percentage of revenue, a sign that the company's cost-containment measures were effective.

The biggest flaw may stem from the cost-containment measures applied to the instruments.

The reason that so many corporations have yet to bring health costs under control is not the weakness of cost-containment measures, but their inefficient application.

Despite the increased awareness of such cost-containment measures, or perhaps because of it, the public appears more reluctant than ever to support some of them.