91.   The main motive is cost control.

92.   The owners have given no indication that they are prepared to drop their demand for a salary cap so they can create cost control for their clubs.

93.   The overriding issue is an element of cost control.

94.   The owners still want a salary cap to create what they call cost control and the players still want no part of it.

95.   The second is to realize that cost control is the prerequisite for universal coverage, not its antithesis.

96.   The team must show continuous improvement and the goals are typically weighted toward cost control.

97.   The Thousand Oaks-based company credited premium increases, cost controls and a spike in California memberships for the earnings growth.

98.   Then there is the matter of cost controls.

99.   There are almost no Medicare cost controls on home health and skilled nursing care, however.

100.   They also should be required to live by reasonable cost controls.