Word: chit
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Here's the idea: you give seniors a chance to opt out of Medicare. If they want to, you hand them a chit worth a specified amount of money and send them shopping for their own health coverage. Bureaucracy gives way to the forces of the free market. Insurance companies, in a dash to sign up tens of millions of new policyholders, come up with an array of attractive new offerings well beyond Medicare's--dental coverage, eyeglasses, hearing aids, annual physicals, prescription drugs. Everyone benefits--and at far less cost to the government...
...more bazaar than bizarre. But this is hardly to say that it's bargain basement Kafka. Rummaging through the apparently artless language leads the reader to discover a finely crafted plot, a great conversation piece for years to come. But admittedly, some of the stories are more worthy of chit-chat than legend...
...tenured Harvard professor is afraid to speak on the record, might I be in for more than I bargained? Has the Ivory Tower Mafia put the kibosh on chit-chat for secret, sordid reasons best left unexplored? More important, can tweed coats carry switchblades? Do corduroy patches cover gang signs? Are the cops going to find my mangled remains in a cement factory down the road from the next Modern Language Association convention...
...with the new fourth meal, students can avoid strolling along side streets and listening to all that rambling chit chat. They can just slam down the books, dash over to the dining commons and slug down a "warm and fresh." It's a beautiful system, really. As sleek and efficient...
...that doesn't work, then you get a visit from Neil and you chit-chat about the world and about the weather and then he says 'this school needs money,'" she says...