Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number-three singles, Mark Leschly was invovled in a three-set marathon. After Leschly won the first set, 6-3, Yale's Bill Benjes rallied to win the final two sets and match...
...Dukakis reminds audiences on the campaign trail, as he argues that the Federal Government should provide low-cost coverage. Last week the Governor could point to his home state as an example of how that can be done: the Massachusetts legislature passed the nation's first comprehensive health- insurance bill. By 1992 coverage will extend to everyone in the state, including the unemployed...
While the bill does not require businesses to provide health insurance, companies with more than five employees must either offer coverage or contribute a maximum of $1,680 to a state fund for each uninsured worker. Eventually, private and public health insurance should be extended to 600,000 people, 10% of the state's population, who are without coverage. Opponents are concerned that the plan will hurt small businesses and damage the Massachusetts economy. In 1992 the plan will cost companies, employees and the state an estimated $444 million in additional funds...
...tests for every man, woman and child, which surely makes Americans among the most analyzed people on the planet. In recent years, the amount of testing has steadily increased, by 10% to 20% annually. The cost in 1987: more than $100 billion, or 20% of the nation's bill for health care...
...would step down next January from the post he assumed a decade ago, relief among many Democrats was palpable. Senators appreciate Byrd for his obsessive attention to their personal needs, but little else. Increasingly, he has seemed unable to control his flock. None of the Government's 13 appropriations bills came to a vote last year, forcing the adoption of an omnibus spending bill whose full content was not known to a single Senator; in February, Byrd's own campaign- finance bill could not make it through the Senate. Moreover, with his silver- ^ blue pompadour and dour expression, Byrd...