Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end the House handed the President a sharp defeat by approving a defense authorization bill that turned his priorities upside down. By a vote of 261 to 162, the House slashed spending for four major strategic weapons while reinstating the F-14D and the V-22. The House decided to restrict production of the controversial B-2 bomber to just four planes during the next two years, and to authorize those only if the Bush Administration agrees to scale back its $70 billion program. The House also chopped $1.8 billion from the Administration's $4.9 billion request...
Reality: Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
Doctors resent spending extra time with patients who demand exhaustive explanations or who merely exercise their hypochondria. "If you have to spend twice as much time because a patient's assertive and he wants to ask questions, it's certainly difficult to bill for that period of time," says cardiologist Alexander. "Lawyers and accountants don't have third parties or government agencies looking over their shoulders to determine whether their billings are fair." Patients understandably take a spare-no-expense attitude toward their health, but that is not a philosophy likely to keep a medical company in the black...
...balk at the battery of tests that doctors order to cover themselves. "You come in for an ingrown toenail, and they turn you inside out giving you all kinds of tests that you don't need," says columnist Ann Landers, who receives complaints from all concerned. "The bill is horrendous. The doctors want to be able to prove that they didn't miss anything. It makes people mad, and I don't blame them...
...proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged 275 telephone calls from lawmakers and Washington lobbyists...