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- adjective Able to be
scored .
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Examples
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Mr. Orszag's ambitions extend beyond "scorable" spending cuts -- reductions in federal spending that can offset the cost of expanding health-care coverage.
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Jeffrey Binder, president and CEO of Indiana-based Biomet Inc., said it is difficult for the industry to produce "scorable" savings for budget analysts because most payments go through a hospital or clinic before reaching them.
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"And if all you did was the blunter 'scorable' savings, it won't be sustainable, and you're not getting at the inefficiencies.
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He has 17 scorable points, split brows, 6 in. mass between his G2 & G3 and scored 175.
Field & Stream 2009
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If the “trigger” is pulled, the actions would be self-executing (unless Congress overturns them), selected by experts (whether a commission or the Secretary of HHS) from a menu of pre-determined, scorable options, and consistent with savings throughout the system (not just shifting costs from government to private payers).
Wonk Room » CBO Found Little Savings In Obama’s MedPAC Proposal, Now What? 2009
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Shot by the young lady in the picture (rumored to be 14 years old), the ginormous whitetail is supposed to sport 26 scorable points and gross around 230 B&C.
Weekly Rut Report 2009
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This buck has 3 scorable normal points on the right antler plus main beam with a possible 6 on the left.
Is This Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Buck the New World Record Typical Whitetail? 2009
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This buck has 3 scorable normal points on the right antler plus main beam with a possible 6 on the left.
Is This Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Buck the New World Record Typical Whitetail? 2009
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So that stuff in congressional jargon is not scorable; the Congressional Budget Office won't count that as savings, so we're setting that aside.
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"What we want to do, and what we need to do, is make it abundantly clearer to people that this will be entirely paid for with real, scorable savings," refereed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the official said.
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