Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those charges struck a chord among middle-and lower-income Britons, who fear a future of progressively better services for an increasingly wealthy few. The issue goes to the heart of Britain's free-health-care system and moves the country toward medical treatment based largely on the patient's ability to pay. Says Paul Swain, a London hospital consultant: "A majority of people really like the NHS no matter how much they grumble about...
...sociology, which is centered on slapdash but often tantalizing interviews with 30 of the nation's richest citizens (average net worth in 1987: $425 million). As the author presents them, these ultrarich tend to be banal in thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder of U- Haul, says he could comfortably retire on $50,000 a year...
...Wrong," says Baker. "The thing is getting them in. They're smart as hell. Their eyesight and hearing are incredible, about ten times better than a human's. The trick is in getting them where you want them, on your terms. Then you control the situation, not them. You have the options. Pull the trigger or don't. It doesn't matter once you've got them where you want them. The important thing is knowing that it's in your hands, that you can do whatever you determine is in your interest to do. I don't know, though...
...turned out, Quayle performed better than even he might have expected. He committed some small gaffes: tempting fate by tasting tropical fruit at a Caracas fruit stand and rapping former President Jimmy Carter for "complicating matters" by discussing Central American peace plans with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Quayle said he did not talk with his boss during the trip and noted that the President was suffering from laryngitis. He then took an unintentional swipe at Ronald Reagan by adding that the former President sometimes used a sore throat as an excuse for canceling press conferences...
...University of Paris: "They are both searching for an exterior situation that will allow them to resolve their internal problems." Neither can afford the immense military machines they have built. By curtailing the animosity that made such military spending necessary, the two nations can put those resources to better, domestic use. Though they have something to offer each other in bilateral trade, sales of tangible goods may be less important than another exchange: strategies for reform. Says a Chinese analyst: "Beijing needs to push its stalled political reforms and Moscow needs to produce results in economic reform. Both sides...