Word: bonanzas
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...them) and the aged. Howard has played this game before. Three years ago, he was toast, his government seen as "mean" and "tricky." Sure, 9/11 and the Tampa issue allowed Howard to display his superior national security credentials compared with Labor aspirant Kim Beazley. But a Budget-time spending bonanza six months before the poll helped Howard and his government to get back in the race...
...abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it, but their own jobs are in jeopardy and will be leaving soon." And a New Yorker saw a deficit-reduction bonanza: "Americans could save billions if we outsourced our Federal Government! Certainly there must be citizens of India who would be glad to act as our legislators for a fraction of what we are paying U.S. politicians...
...inflammation - the same biological process that turns the tissue around a splinter red and causes swelling in an injured toe. If they are right - and the evidence is starting to look pretty good - it could radically change doctors' concept of what makes us sick. It could also prove a bonanza to pharmaceutical companies looking for new ways to keep us well...
...blow those among the insurgents who hoped to restore Saddam to power - but that is not necessarily a goal that has been common to all of them. The insurgency could suffer some even more immediate knocks if Saddam cooperates with his captors, to whom he could provide an intelligence bonanza on the structure and funding of the parts of the insurgency orchestrated by his subordinates. He may also help settle the questions of what became of his alleged weapons of mass destruction...
With the passage of last week’s Medicare bill, the Republican party has produced a political monstrosity that can only be described as a “gravy-train-wreck”: a bonanza for the politically-influential pharmaceutical industry and a boondoggle for the nation’s taxpayers. Bush and his allies on the Hill, with an eye to the 2004 election, are clearly hoping the $400 billion prescription-drug benefit will woo elderly voters, but the bill is of dubious value to senior citizens, and a fiscal timebomb for younger generations of Americans...