Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...count on us soldiers to do your dirty work. None of us will...
...outsize portion of public attention, partly because they are attractive exemplars of what is possible. But it is at the nether end of the economic scale that the hardest battles are being fought, and it is there that the statistics begin to take on the proportions of a body count...
Most such packages offer what amounts to almost open-ended coverage. In a typical plan, doctors can provide the most advanced-and expensive-tests and treatment programs available. Afterward, the patient can count on receiving automatic reimbursement of up to 75% or more of the charges. Says Kenneth Abramowitz, a health-care industry analyst for the New York investment banking firm of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "Everyone perceives the system to be, in effect, free. All the incentives are to provide very high-quality service at a very high cost...
...otherwise normal (I think!) young married woman except I can't seem to get enough chocolate. I blow the housekeeping money on Godiva chocolate strawberry creams. I count the minutes till the weekly shipment of Teuscher champagne truffles arrives from Switzerland. I hide Tobler Extra-Bitter sweet around the house. Hershey's Kisses mean more to me than Harry's (he's my hubby). Sometimes I even dream Harry has been dipped in milk chocolate. When I can't get chocolate, I sweat and shake. Am I an ADDICT? Is there anything...
...Cambridge Young adults, torn between the desire to start a home of their own and to continue to live in the neighborhood, usually remain in the family lodging until a vacancy develops. "people aren't moving unless it's a necessity," says the Gore St resident, "and you can count [the number of vacant houses] on your hand...