Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitions may come from the backgrounds of the men who direct it. Before he came to Harvard, Pollack had served as professor of administrative medicine at Columbia and director of Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Hospital Costs in New York. In his years in New York, Pollack used to buy medi- cal service plans for three million people. By the time he came to Harvard in 1965, Pollack says he "came with a national outlook...
...funny. Sartre, who was a real-life friend of Vian's, is amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing in her lungs: this is both Vian's preposterous parody of the consumptive heroines who litter romantic tradition, and a real tragedy in the context of a world where orchids grow from the sidewalk...
...some liberal observers se the health plan, however, all these efficiencies still leave some gaps. The plan's new benefits seem to be aimed at the same middle-class consumers who now buy medical insurance through private agencies. The similarity is no accident; Pollack says that the plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium...
...regularly. He had met Nathan in late August, in a bar. At that period in his life, Scott was telling everybody the Truth. Eloquently. He was making an effort to quit feeling embarrassed by his intellect, overcome his shyness, and to really help humanity. So when Nathan offered to buy him a beer, Scott smiled brightly and said...
...Good I guess I'll buy it then...