Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighters. B-52s would carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth fighters and F-15E strike jets. The U.S. would also rely on sophisticated radar to pinpoint the enemy's artillery tubes and take them out with artillery salvos...
...originally conceived by Blue Cross 60 years ago, community rating aimed to spread the risk of medical costs by charging a single premium, regardless of age, gender, income or medical condition. Over the past two decades, however, "experience rating" has become more popular. It enables insurance companies to "cream skim" low-risk groups and offer them modest premiums, then "cherry pick" the people within that group who pose high health risks and either raise their policy costs or deny them coverage. The result is so unfair that 40 states have restricted or prohibited the practice. "What you end up with...
...glimpses of the private Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are available. For one, she was often seen at ballet intermissions eating ice cream, something she loved. For another, she chain-smoked -- out of the camera's range -- until 1987, when she told Kitty Dukakis, who had approached her for advice on being a political wife, that she was quitting. She remained devoted to J.F.K.'s memory. Over lunch with friends, she often began remarks with "Jack used to say" or "Jack thought...
...were forced to pick the best single picture De Kooning ever painted, it would probably have to be Excavation, 1950: that tangled, not-quite monochrome, dirty-cream image of -- what? Bodies is the short answer: every one of the countless forms that seem embedded in the paint, jostling and slipping against one another in a tempo that seems to get faster toward the corners, can be read as an elbow, a thigh, a buttock, but never quite literally. There is even a set of floating teeth -- the dentures the Women would soon be sporting...
...GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IS STILL A mystery. Left to their own devices, cable operators are likely to concentrate on the richest neighborhoods of the most densely populated regions -- a practice known as cream skimming. If they were required, as phone companies are, to provide service to everybody, their development plans might look very different. So far the Clinton Administration has concentrated on getting schools, libraries and hospitals hooked up and has said little about how to bring the technology to the rest of the country...