Word: america
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...final lines are being drawn in America's great HMO debate ? and it looks as if the issue will mostly be settled at the ballot box. The Senate on Thursday slogged through a second day of grueling partisan combat, eventually passing a more limited Republican version of a Patients' Bill of Rights. Amendment by amendment, the GOP majority struck down every Democratic attempt to give broader access to specialists and emergency-room care to the broadest possible number of insured patients, some 161 million persons. In nearly every case, Republicans came back to pass similar, but more limited, measures that...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPrivately, Alan Greenspan can crow a little. With one eye on the so-called "new paradigm," in which tech-driven productivity gains naturally outstrip price pressures, and the other eye on a shaky Latin America, the Fed chairman isn?t anxious to raise rates. But some of his FOMC colleagues at that big mahogany table have been getting antsy about the Fed?s turning into a paper tiger, kowtowing to the stock market and letting the economy run wild and free. This week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just...
...This was great news ? there?s absolutely no sign of inflation in the economy right now ? but there?s a lot of uncertainty out there right now coming from Argentina," he says. Latin America?s third largest economy has mounting debt, is mired in a recession, and is stuck with a currency that it can?t afford. "The Argentinian peso is tied one-to-one with the dollar, and with the dollar so strong, countries with devalued currencies like Brazil are killing it on exports because their goods are that much cheaper." If Argentina buckles under the pressure and devalues...
...they?d prefer that the issues social conservatives like Smith champion would just go away." The Republicans have been worrying about their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars, and social conservatives are simply not welcome on the national stage. Among the spurned, there has been plenty of disappointed talk, but only someone...
...couldn't deal with seeing myself on those tapes, I don't think I could have handled having my dorkiness deconstructed by 16-year-old girls around the world. So instead, I'll gladly do my entertainment duty by taking a ball in the groin for America's Funniest Home Videos, just like everybody else. Because, I now realize, after watching loads of The Real World, that there are few things quite as cringe-inducing as listening to people try to describe who they are. Except, of course, in a magazine column...