David Mackay
David Mackay
across bitter board discovered effect fruit hit larger number numbers patients question rebound returning took
Overall, there's no question we took a hit across the board to some degree. But we've discovered a rebound effect is already under way. A number of American patients test-drove Medicare. ... Now they are returning to us in larger ... numbers after they have experienced the bitter fruit of Medicare.
oral problem skills solving wider
Oral presentations could also be important, with the wider skills of problem solving and working with others.
flight knocking programme walking
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
exciting exploring landing looked watched
I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.
amazing experience forward scots sending
For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.
aircraft
In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
chance military travel
I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
medicare question
There's no question Medicare Part D has dampened sales.
astronaut frustrated grew humans landing life living lots moon seemed space time
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
pilot programme realised unlikely
Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
fantastic saw
When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
above accepted commonly
We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.