Word: braked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid these grim alternatives, the wonks on my side have proposed schemes that would make health insurance a portable benefit. Individuals, instead of employers, would buy health insurance and would receive the tax benefits for doing so. My wonks claim that their system would act as a brake on costs, since insurers would have to deal with consumers directly. The poor would be treated as they are now, through Medicaid, or with means-tested tax credits...
...headquarters, Smith spends most of his 12- and 14-hour days in his modest office at GM's technical center in Warren, 15 miles away. His goal is to convert the research center into the core of GM's new-product operations by bringing together such specialists as chassis, brake and electrical engineers to form platform teams for launches...
...Rumpf, 34, know exactly how low they have sunk. Every afternoon, Rumpf stands on the median of a busy Los Angeles intersection, holding a sign that declares him a homeless veteran who would be happy to work for money or food. Each day, motorists lock their doors as they brake for the nearby stoplight, and Rumpf hears the offensive click. He says that "things have changed" during his four years on the street. "The economy's part of it," he says quietly, "but people blame the homeless for everything -- drugs, crime, everything." Rumpf would like to tell everyone...
...movie, that made for quite a visual effect. There was a similar effect here: When Gibson hit the ball, the brake lights of every car exiting the Dodger Stadium parking lot went...
...brake on Arafat's homecoming is the problem of securing his safety. Palestinian radicals have threatened to kill him, and a former chief rabbi of Israel has blessed his murder. P.L.O. sources in the territories say Arafat plans to move between two headquarters, one in Jericho and one in the Gaza Strip, a 70-mile trip by road through central Israel. The agreement guarantees safe passage, but for Arafat, "safe" would probably necessitate a military convoy. A Palestinian force that size would irritate the Israelis, while an Israeli contingent would humiliate the P.L.O. Arafat might commute by helicopter...