Word: bunion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul is "a pathetic cringing nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock" to the local GP. The cheery camaraderie of Britain's postwar Ealing comedies has given way to pig-eat-pig biliousness--which would be fine if Bennett (An Englishman Abroad) and Mowbray did not engage in something like laugh rationing. This is an Animal Farm that could...
...York City area had to see a second doctor if they wanted their health insurance plans to pay for operations. In 19% of the cases, would-be patients got negative second opinions, and nearly two-thirds of them did not have surgery. Among the procedures frequently deemed unnecessary: bunion removal, hysterectomies, prostate surgery and knee operations. Judging by the experience of one union's health fund, every $1 spent for fees and administrative expenses in the program should save $2.63 in sick pay and hospital costs. Says McCarthy: "Every time a person was referred for a second opinion...