Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the secretary of state has offered to "be the lightning rod for criticism" if the White House agrees to compromise on a deal to pay $1 billion in back dues the U.S. owes the United Nations. Negotiations have been stalled for months: House Conservatives won't release the cash unless the White House agrees to a ban on U.S. funding of all programs that promote abortion rights. Clinton's acceptance of the conservatives' language - allowing himself the loophole of executive waivers for specific cases - would ensure that the U.S. keeps its vote in the General Assembly, and buttress...
...some Cambridge University lecturers were reportedly not happy about the deal, in part because the cash will be released gradually over the next five years, The Times of London reported today...
...situation where the government can say they won't release the next slice of cash unless we do 'x,"' she said...
Cost is also an issue. Managed-care providers, eager to cash in on the alternative boom, are luring subscribers by offering to cover some of these dubious treatments. But most consumers of alternate products use conventional medicine too, and when it becomes evident that the alternatives are not cost effective and at best produce only a placebo effect, the HMOs will drop them in a heartbeat. Says William Jarvis, a professor of public health at California's Loma Linda University: "Useless procedures don't add to the outcome, just to the overhead...
...immensely lucrative. Do you think the shrewd folks at Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast and Weight Watchers could make billions scaring the bejesus out of you about pestilence? Make no mistake--fat phobia is a big moneymaker for those who have figured out how to promote and cash in on self-hatred...