Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought Quicken in, say, 1996, why would you buy it again now? Sure, the old program still balances your checkbook. But will it research the price of your home on the Web? The latest version...
...defending celebrities in highly publicized cases, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has used the courtroom to make powerful political statements. And he has made just as significant political assertions with his checkbook as well...
Resorting to the Checkbook...
...liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs to expansive (and expensive) litigation would raise insurance costs, preliminary data from Texas shows virtually no increase in the number of medical lawsuits since that state?s new law was enacted...
Even the best character-ed programs, though, can be seen as the culmination of a long process by which schools have assumed more and more responsibilities traditionally handled at home. The average school now teaches kids how to choose a balanced diet, drive, balance a checkbook, have sex (in sex ed), not have sex (in abstinence programs), identify sexual abuse and avoid HIV. We are a long way from reading, writing and arithmetic, and have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings...