wraparound

adj. providing continuous, comprehensive, or back-up support or coverage of all obligations or aspects of a situation. Subjects: English

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Citations: 1968 Chicago Tribune (Oct. 20) “Mortgage Bankers Meeting to Be Held Here Tomorrow” p. D1: Featured topics will be equity participation, the wrap-around mortgage, and the techniques of investment in income-producing property. 1986 Associated Press (June 20) “Growing Number Of American’s Turn To Health Maintenance”: HMOs work with Medicare in two ways: Either they have direct contracts with Medicare or provide what is called Medicare “wrap-around” coverage for individuals who were members of the HMO when they became Medicare beneficiaries. 1989 James Cook Forbes (Mar. 20) “‘We Had To Get More Sophisticated’” p. 57: He has also developed what he calls wraparound service, wherein Brooklyn Union owns the gas-fueled heating and cooling facilities in large installations and sells their outpupt. 1990 Business Wire (May 21) “Prime Network adds 2.7 million subscribers” (in Atlanta, Georgia): Prime Network offers regionals a national feed which they can access as a wrap-around service to their locally-originated programming. 2001 San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Oct. 4) “Mental health loses out” p. A24: We have tried to persuade our legislators and governor to provide the comprehensive treatment so desperately needed by those who suffer from severe mental illness.…But to no avail. Two assembly bills, both sponsored by Helen Thomson, D- Davis, failed to gain funding. AB1421, which would have provided “wraparound” service to the severely mentally ill, was snuffed out in a conference committee. 2004 Chase Squires St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (May 30) “Lacoochee crawls out from sorrow’s shadow”: Bergantino said the Lacoochee area needs what she can provide: an educational program that encompasses not just reading and writing, but also job readiness and child care. “I refer to what we do as wraparound service,” Bergantino said. “We do whatever it takes, but you’ve got to do your part.” 2006 Arielle Levin Becker Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, N.J.) (Apr. 9) “Woman’s vision guides foster kids”: It coincided with changes in the child-welfare system, including the development of care-management organizations to work with children and more focus on what’s known as wraparound services. The idea is to supply children with the services they need in their communities, developing local resources—Douglas called them “natural supports”—that families can access easily. 2006 William F. O'Brien Edmond Sun (Oklahoma) (Dec. 18) “Programs improve recidivism rates”: Transition coordinators are now working with those agencies and private organizations to develop what is known as the “wraparound reentry model” that will result in a team of individuals and entities that will be able to support those former inmates upon their return to society. 2007 Chad Killebrew Lexington Dispatch (North Carolina) (Mar. 17) “March Madness takes hold across the nation”: I discovered another term for network airing of the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments Friday morning: wrap-around coverage. Rather than focus on a single game, ESPN will switch among several games while televising the NCAA women’s basketball tournament today.

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“wraparound” was used in its most holistic sense in Chapter 9, pages 151-174, of Macro-engineering: A Challenge for the Future, Edited by V. Badescu, R.B. Cathcart and R.D. Schuiling (Springer, 2006). There its use involved a membrane encapsulation of the Earth—the entire planet enclosed by a balloon still inhabited by humans. The setting for this macroproject was the far-term future, post-2100 AD probably.

by Richard B. Cathcart 29 Mar 07, 0255 GMT