Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approved the Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act, the largest expansion of Medicare since its creation 23 years ago. The new legislation is designed to prevent 31 million elderly and disabled Americans from being wiped out by the crippling cost of hospitalization. Among other things, the bill provides unlimited free hospital care after a $589 deductible is reached, a $1,400 annual limit on doctor's fees and a portion of outpatient drugs...
...ensure that she complies with the order, Forster is required to periodically provide written evidence to her probation officer. Forster, who married at 15, said she had been overwhelmed by the job of taking care of the boys after her marriage broke up. Both children, as well as a daughter born in March, have since been given up for adoption. Asserting that the "state has no right to interfere" in Forster's freedom to become pregnant, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Catholic Church will protest the order...
...discovered burning bodies in kilns. Police believe the Sconces illegally disposed of as many as 16,000 bodies in 1985 and 1986. Last week the Sconces pleaded innocent to 67 criminal offenses, including performing illegal multiple cremations and selling gold fillings and organs from bodies entrusted to their care...
European directors do not dare or care to compete with Hollywood in the splatter sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast...
Life is tough for Soviet women. Really tough. Overworked and underappreciated, most of the Soviet Union's 149 million women fight an uphill battle simply to survive the daily grind -- an endless race against time in the effort to juggle job, housework and child care. The average Soviet woman has few modern conveniences, gets little sympathy from the boss and virtually no household help from her husband. She nurtures only limited hope that the situation will change anytime soon. "I have a great admiration for the women of the Soviet Union," President Reagan told Soviet reporters...