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  • "What we have in common as Nordic countries is the basic principle of behaving nice," says Eva Kruse, chief executive of the Danish Fashion Institute, one of the five Nordic partners in NICE.

    Is This Style's Sustainable Frontier? Valeria Criscione 2009

  • "Well, it was my turn to be line leader at school today and someone else got to be line leader and that was not nice either … NOT NICE AT ALL!"

    i, wright 2009

  • Indeed, NICE is often held up as a model for IPAB to follow.

    Should U.S. Import U.K. Model For Medicare And Medicaid? Tomas J. Philipson 2010

  • Like, houses in NICE neighborhoods paid for in cash.

    (No) Money Changes Everything | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • A British health commission, with the acronym NICE, evaluates the cost-effectiveness of treatments.

    Are health economists naughty or NICE?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Yeah, and I think Britain has this experience with its own government-run health care where they have to have a government body, that goes by the acronym NICE -- it's not very nice -- and really what it does is it limits a lot, you know, the kinds of drugs you can get and the kinds of services you can get.

    'Panel' Discussion 2009

  • Oh yeah, that Canadian collective unconscious called NICE, is all well and good but it has direct repercussions on things like our television and our government and our syrup.

    OH! Canada The Verger 2008

  • Oh yeah, that Canadian collective unconscious called NICE, is all well and good but it has direct repercussions on things like our television and our government and our syrup.

    Archive 2008-12-01 The Verger 2008

  • The agency, known as NICE, also recently recommended against paying for Novartis AG's oral multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya, which has an annual cost in the U.K. of more than $29,000 per patient, and declined to pay for a new lupus drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Benlysta, which costs about $15,600 a year in the U.K.

    U.K. Agency Rejects Bristol-Myers Skin Cancer Drug Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • Health and Clinical Excellence, known by its Orwellian acronym NICE, intends to slash by 95 percent the number of steroid injections, such as cortisone, given to people who suffer severe and chronic back pain.

    Time to Go, Grampa 2009

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