Word: companionism
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Still, the two plans converge far more than they diverge. Both promote regional health-purchasing cooperatives, guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions and competition among providers to push down costs. The companion Senate version has drawn far less Administration fire. The White House believes Breaux is a team player, and will support Clinton...
...like a piece of ACT-UP literature: fine if you're a piece of ACT-UP literature, but not necessarily if you're a Christopher Marlowe play. But first, the Cliff Notes. Edward II has a particular affection for a commoner named Gaveston, and makes him his companion, much to the chagrin of his queen Isabella, his brother, his court, and his kingdom in general. With the ambitious militarist Mortimer, Isabella jealously plots Gaveston's banishment and eventual murder. Edward II winds up imprisoned and miserable, failed in his capacities as ruler and husband and deprived of the one human...
Middleton says his canine companion "listens to National Public Radio and gets to sit in some interesting dorm conversations...
...homes, with parents reported to have alcohol problems. While Boy B's parents have both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...
...nightmares. Arlis deals novelty vending machines in Texas, travelling from site to site in his pickup and sleeping in road-side motels. Fate brings him together wit a runaway housewife, Kay Davies (Meg Ryan), with whom he eventually falls in love and takes on as a travelling-companion and lover. It is only when he discovers that Kay is that baby whose family his father slaughtered so long ago that the entire gravitas of the situation propels the story crazily forward...