Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political candidates are weaned away from their media-masters, perhaps they will fall back on those old strangers--passions and issues. And when issues cease to be shams created by consultants, citizens will care about them again. When substance returns to our elections, so will the voters...
Third, add an extra penny to the cost of each cigarette by way of an increased federal excise tax (currently eight-tenths of a penny). While it's hard not to sympathize with the addicted smoker, the cost of smoking to society, in medical care and lost productivity, far exceeds the current tax on the product. That is, nonsmokers subsidize smokers. With a tax hike -- this one would raise $5 billion -- they'd merely subsidize them less...
...Capasso's alimony payments. Many New Yorkers seem less offended by Myerson's alleged misdeeds than by the behavior of Sukhreet, 39, who cheerfully testified for eight days against her 75-year-old mother. "This is what she wanted her whole life, to be an actress. She doesn't care who she's hurting," says Warren Shalit, 58, a retired warehouse manager and connoisseur of trials...
...game, with No. 2-ranked U.S.C. If successful, the Irish will probably play currently unbeaten West Virginia in either the Fiesta Bowl or the Gator Bowl, a contest that could decide the national championship. But overconfidence is not in Holtz's playbook. Says he: "Right now -- I don't care what the polls say -- we're not the best in the country. But maybe we can be by the end of the season...
...American Hospital Association estimates that nearly 70% of those still in business are financially ailing. Though Washington recently announced new Medicare reimbursement policies that will boost payments for patients who incur exceptionally high costs, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported last month that the crisis in rural health care may grow even worse. The committee concluded that as many as 600 of the nation's 2,700 rural hospitals are in danger of shutting down...