Word: crackings
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Patients and consumer advocates are demanding that the government crack down on HMO abuses. Their complaints are being heard all the way up to the White House. President Clinton has just appointed a 34-member advisory committee to draft a patients' bill of rights and study what kind of legislation may be needed to enforce it. "Many Americans worry that lower costs mean lower quality and less attention to their rights," said the President. He was being mild. Senator Edward Kennedy, introducing a comprehensive HMO-reform bill drafted by Democrats, charged, "Too many managed-care firms and other insurance companies...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The penalty for crack possession will remain markedly more severe then that for holding an equal amount of cocaine after the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the law. According to current federal guidelines, it takes 100 times more cocaine powder than crack to draw the same 10-year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with...
...Saturday morning radio show that he is extending the new family leave provisions to federal employees so they also can take time off from work for their children's school conferences and medical appointments. And on Monday, he will unveil a joint agreement with the U.S. clothing industry to crack down on abusive labor practices in poor countries, according to the Washington Post. So far, the strategy seems to be working: recent polls have indicated that less than 4 percent of Americans rank getting to the bottom of possible campaign finance irregularities as the central issue inside the beltway...
...interesting and disturbing fact that the advent of interleague play points to--a fact that owners are banking on--is that sometimes people want things they know they'd be better off without. Like the third "Godfather" film, super-sized fries and crack-cocaine, interleague play is an obviously bad idea, and yet one for which there is tremendous demand...
...supporters to maintain a hard line toward Palestinians. For his part, Arafat gave Ross assurances he would do his best to quell further violence, postponing a joint rally for Palestinian unity of his Fatah movement and Islamic militants. "If Arafat can get the settlements stopped, he may crack down on Hamas, but it will be largely a political show for the Israelis and the U.S.," notes McGeary. "If the Palestinian people begin to see real concessions from Israel, they may very well calm down by themselves...