Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back mercy killing, though most state efforts to make it legal have not succeeded. Voters in Oregon passed a Death with Dignity Act by a 60% majority last year, making it the only state to legalize assisted suicide. California and Washington defeated "aid in dying" referendums in the early 1990s. And Michigan rejected an assisted-suicide initiative this year by a landslide of 71% to 29%. (No state allows the sort of mercy killing that Kevorkian aired last week.) Courts have largely bowed out of the issue. In 1990 the Supreme Court held that patients have a right to refuse...
...medicare beneficiaries received a "Dear John" letter last month, but it wasn't from their sweethearts. It was from their HMOs. Thanks to increasing medical costs and decreasing federal reimbursements, taking care of patients over 65 is not so profitable a business as it was in the early 1990s. So as of Dec. 31, more than 90 HMOs across the U.S.--including Aetna, Humana and Oxford--will stop serving Medicare customers in certain regions around the country...
...also the architect of what has become nationwide banking in the 1990s--although parochial interests prevented him from realizing it in his lifetime. His great vision was that a bank doing business in all parts of a state or the nation would be less vulnerable to any one region's difficulties. It would therefore be strong enough to lend to troubled communities when they were most in need...
...early 1990s everybody was pulling for Gates, who proved that even an uber-nerd whom the rest of us beat up in the playground could make it big in the land of opportunity. But the world's richest man made the classic hubristic mistake: building what one newspaper called the "new Xanadu" and bragging about it. Gates' high-tech haven would top even Hearst's epically garish San Simeon as the most grandiose castle in America. But as Hearst once quipped of his estate--which housed, among other things, a large zoo--"Pleasure is what you can afford...
...recount, for a moment, some of Seaboard's corporate welfare in the 1990s: Minnesota provided more than $3 million in economic incentives; Kentucky, $23 million; Kansas, $10 million; and Oklahoma, $100 million. The Federal Government's OPIC provided $25 million in insurance for business ventures abroad. As for the financial burdens imposed on other taxpayers by virtue of Seaboard's presence, no one knows the cost. It is in the tens of millions of dollars. And all this for jobs that pay little more than poverty-level wages...