Word: certain
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...being dropped from your Medicare HMO, you have basically two options: you can enroll in another HMO, or you can opt for "traditional" Medicare coverage, in which you choose your doctor and pay certain deductibles for hospitalization and a 20% co-payment on other services. By law, your soon-to-be-ex HMO must inform you of alternative HMOs. But it's still up to you to call those HMOs and see whether they offer a plan that's right for you--say, one that covers prescription drugs (as traditional Medicare does not). Don't wait until the last minute...
...There will be times when you and your mate disagree on how to handle certain situations...If you're inconsistent with these rules, your child will be confused, decide not to listen to either one of you, or--worse yet--play you both off of each other." (Parenting for Dummies...
...interfered with the electromagnetic fields that pigeons use to help them navigate. That theory led me to another theory: people who take great pleasure in shouting into their cellular phones as they walk down the street had finally shouted loudly enough to scare all birdlife senseless. Nobody knew for certain...
...have also been unfair to him. Few living Americans have been so resented, envied and vilified, but in certain ways his career is distinguished by decency--and he hasn't got much credit for it. Technology confuses us, throws us off the scent. Where Gates is concerned, we have barked up a lot of wrong trees...
...marketing wizardry, Gates blundered in displaying the same attitude that doomed certain robber barons. As writer Ambrose Bierce once gibed of Hearst, "Nobody but God loves him, and he knows it." Likewise, Gates' Xanadu has helped transform the boyishly charming geek into the Microsoft Monster, who is being chased by torch-bearing mobs brandishing antitrust suits. Nowhere in Gates' overwired palace is there a program to inform him how to act in the nation he lives in: the U.S. of A., in which throngs cheered the heavy-metal band Motorhead when it performed Eat the Rich and where Garth Brooks...