Word: bestow
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...Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has a habit of treading where other elected officials are loath to go. First, he took on same-sex marriage. Now Newsom is angling again to bestow city residents with rights that Americans living elsewhere don't have. San Franciscans, he announced this week, are poised to become the first recipients of universal health care. This means uninsured city dwellers will gain access to basic medical services they otherwise couldn't afford. While not free, the care will come at sharply reduced costs. Enrollment fees will range from $3 to $201, depending on participants' incomes. Most...
...Europe, thermal therapies have an ancient tradition," says Maria Carla Ottaiano of the Lazio Regional Health Council. Nevertheless, Italy's Ministry of Health proposes to verify scientifically the effectiveness of thermal treatments. Testing like that might help ease the antagonism between conventional and alternative practitioners. Done properly, it would bestow legitimacy on effective treatments, while weeding out bogus therapies - and the quacks who promote them. A key area is in the licensing and regulation of practitioners, vital to quality control. Dr. Sara Eames, a homeopath at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, says the lack of regulation undermines confidence...
...Watergate had inoculated the nation against that, once and for all. And however far to the right the U.S. shifted, after Vietnam we knew we’d finally buried the arrogance of power. Never again would Americans invade a nation halfway around the world in order to bestow democracy at gunpoint. Right...
...surreal it was to find himself the toast of Cannes last week. Over two days at the celebrated film festival, the former Vice President conducted what he figures were 48 interviews, many of them roundtable sessions, to accommodate the kind of interest that entertainment reporters usually bestow on people named Halle and Beyoncé. And then there was that encounter with Hugh Jackman, the Australian heartthrob whose expected summer blockbuster, X-Men: The Last Stand, was set to open in some 16,000 theaters around the world. "It was just a random comment, and here's how I remember it--Hugh...
...Mexican city of Monterrey in January 2004, he called Martin a "straightforward fellow." Two years later, Bush used the same phrase to describe Stephen Harper at their get-acquainted chat in Canc?n, Mexico. Awkward coincidence? Maybe, but the U.S. President evidently regards straightforwardness as the highest praise he can bestow on his counterparts--at least until he decides it no longer fits the bill...