Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign had already done its job. Klein is the king of the promotional double bounce: the controversial ad followed by coverage of the ensuing controversy. It started in 1980 when Brooke Shields, then 15, purred that nothing came between her and her Calvins and continued with an anatomically correct underwear ad featuring Marky Mark. More recently Klein has pioneered masturbation, bestiality and violence in advertising with fashion's anorexic-looking Lolita, Kate Moss. He displayed her feeling her breasts, posing naked with a large dog and bare-chested with a black eye, holding her hand over her mouth...
...theory is undoubtedly correct. But there are problems too. As mentioned, there are limits on people's ability and inclination to be rational consumers when it comes to health care. Furthermore, the worst health-care inflation is occurring in big-ticket items, such as major surgery, which cost more than the annual out-of-pocket threshold. The big savings to the government would come not from any triumph of market-based efficiency but simply from making seniors pay more of the cost. And the government would lose some of that money again if, as proposed, people are encouraged...
...create unhealthy competition. Surgeons know that if they don't offer the latest techniques in the operating room, they risk losing a patient to others who will. Unless a procedure calls for a new piece of medical equipment and thus falls under FDA jurisdiction--like a new laser to correct nearsightedness that is currently awaiting the agency's approval--it can become widespread without ever being definitively proved to be safe or effective...
...distaste of California's patio-living Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. His pale hero is Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a real estate shark, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon. Delaney is not just politically correct, he's politically exquisite, but when a Mexican man, Candido, blunders in front of his white Acura on a canyon road, his reaction is angry revulsion: the wounded wet back, to whom he gives a $20 bill, is an infiltrator...
...WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT SOME mistakes in your story so that my adopted daughter Robyn, who was mentioned in it, will not be unnecessarily burdened later in life when she explores her roots. Robyn was not crack addicted. Your reporter was told that at birth shetested positive for cocaine and barbiturates. Nor was she abandoned on the street. That happened to the first foster baby put in our care. Finally, the state of California never objected to our adopting Robyn, as a caption says; the problem was always with the city and county of San Francisco, which to this...