Word: commonwealthers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even as Obama spoke in the Locarno Room, a grand, gilded space in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that was designed at the height of Britain's colonial powers, plans were afoot to challenge a stage-managed G-20 consensus. Demonstrators took to the streets, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent out invitations to their own joint London press conference, to signal their determination to resist any Anglo-American pressure for additional fiscal stimulus and to highlight their demands for stricter financial regulation. They are not the only G-20 leaders to arrive in London...
...High deductibles. A 2007 Commonwealth Fund report found that 25% of the underinsured pay annual deductibles of $1,000 or more, a red flag for scant coverage...
...experience suggests it is difficult for an individual to make such judgments. And the existing market for these kinds of policies leaves a lot to be desired. A 2006 Commonwealth Fund study found that only 1 in 10 people who shopped for insurance in the individual market ended up buying a policy. Most of the others couldn't find the coverage they needed at a price they could afford...
...each has either a father or an older sister passing on the genes.Conversely, Barton-Kettleborough, named Northern Division Rookie of the Week on Feb. 24, comes to Harvard from Manchester, England, and decided to take up the sport after seeing it played for the first time at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in her home city.The teammates are also quite similar in their reasons for attending Harvard. They cite the unique opportunity to play for assistant coach and former Olympian Ellen Estes Lee, who led the US to a silver and bronze medal in Sydney and Athens, respectively.In addition...
...selfishness collapses as a viable expression of young ambition, service has stepped in as a replacement. This is by no means a bad thing: the efforts of even a few service-minded young people will go a long way in repairing the acidic mistrust that has corroded the commonwealth...