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...measures in the future, when there is less antagonism between the two parties and more opportunity for compromise. History leaves reason for optimism. The original Social Security bill in 1935 covered far fewer people than it does today, but efforts in subsequent years capitalized upon its passage to include addenda that expanded its welfare net. Similar expansions have occurred with Medicare coverage. Congress must seize the momentum of this bill and address the discarded elements in the near future to further ameliorate the malfunctions and inequities in our healthcare system...
...boxes of domes (condoms)... I brought out about 40 but I think I'll run out of them by Saturday." What Chung didn't consider were the distribution possibilities inherent in e-mail?especially of those perceived as obnoxious?and his message was forwarded around the world bearing addenda like, "What a tool box." Within days he had lost his job. "E-mail makes every user mass media," says futurist Alvin Toffler. "The power was put into the hands of a child and he had 15 seconds of global fame." Hope that FedEx package doesn't come C.O.D...
...These addenda to my interviews with Epps never lasted more than five minutes. To a lowly sophomore at the College though, those five minutes represented intimate access to administrators so busy meeting with each other that they were often too busy to meet with their students. But how many of my fellow undergraduates could claim the same kind of access? At the 364-year-old Harvard, finding out what students actually think could easily be considered an exercise in futility. Perhaps President Neil L. Rudenstine said it best at a Faculty meeting two years ago when he quoted...
Platitudes about regaining the fans' support notwithstanding, professional basketball is putting out an inferior product, riddled with ugly structural crises and unwanted addenda to Dr. Naismith's game...
Unlike the Bob Dylans and Eric Claptons of the industry who market "unplugged" re-recordings of obsolete songs, Guthrie updates his editorial banter perennially. Songs which originally lampooned and criticized the horror and stupidity of the Vietnam War have accumulated, over the years, addenda about Watergate, the Carter Administration, global warming, NAFTA, politically correct children's books, the brainless television industry and the astonishing post-mortem Beatles reunion, as well as any number of other current events...