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According to shoppers yesterday, the sale is a bargain-hunter's haven, with a vast array of cheap course books for sale...
Make health insurance more affordable. At the heart of the Clinton plan is the concept of "managed competition." Health-insurance buyers would band together in large "alliances" to bargain with competing networks of doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers for the best service at the best price. The theory is that such bargaining will encourage lower costs and greater efficiency (fewer unnecessary tests, for example). Rather than simply trust in this theory, however, the Clinton plan would also strictly enforce limits on health-care spending through a powerful new National Health Board that would decide when health-care providers...
...easy as it seems. For one thing, all these strangers start trooping through your house, your life, dragging their tools and their problems behind them. This being Kentish Town, in the north of London, they all want a cup of tea (or something stronger) as part of the bargain. For another, all you have to show at the end is a diminished bank account and pretty much the same old life that you started out with...
...came the go-ahead for the money drop. As instructed, Weinstein's eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin. But the kidnapper didn't keep his end of the bargain to release Weinstein within three hours. Fearing that the abductors might flee the country and abandon their victim to die, police moved...
...Eastern bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...