Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion annually by 1986. He would do so mainly by setting a limit on the federal contribution to the program, which is funded jointly with the states, and letting Washington's support grow only to keep up with inflation. Thus the states would either have to bear most of the burden of any further rise in hospital, nursing-home and doctors' fees, or cut the number of people they accept for Medicaid benefits. There have been proven abuses in the program, mainly involving doctors who overbill for services, and some states have overly generous eligibility requirements. Still, slashing...
Owners cannot afford to make energy-conserving improvements without rent increases, Paul Watkins, a Cambridge landlord, said, explaining, "The rent board does not approve rent increases until after increased expenses are incurred, so it's landlords who bear the burden of inflation...
...macho disillusionment that characterizes much Hemingway imitation--and for that matter, much of Hemingway. His voice, with its tightlipped, overwrought intensity, is a voice terse enough for the end of the world. He and his characters, uptight and dream-ridden, have stared into the intolerable darkness and can hardly bear to speak anymore...
...that kind of power. The overwhelming predominance we enjoyed following World War II, with most of the industrialized world in ruins and America in sole possession of the atomic bomb, can never be restored. We will have to face choices about where we want to bring our power to bear...
...Reagan Dream Machine was the work of Lawrence Kudlow, 33, former chief economist for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Bear, Stearns & Co., and John Rutledge, 32, head of the Claremont Economics Institute in Southern California...