Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inevitably, the new patch will not be able to cure most smokers. According to last week's report, 26% of those wearing the device actually succeeded in abstaining for six months, as opposed to 12% of those using a placebo patch. Still, for smokers the choice seems clear: a 1 in 4 chance of quitting successfully, or the same odds of dying of a tobacco-related disease if they...
California's initiative follows the lead set by Michigan last October, when Republican Governor John Engler threw 90,000 "able-bodied" adults off the welfare rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...second count also seems to hold true: Bush's only proposal to cure the economy is to cut the capital gains tax rate, a strategy that would lodge the middle class even deeper into recession while giving rich people the opportunity to get richer...
...first they seemed like a sure cure. But those tempting low interest rates that Washington has engineered to boost the U.S. economy have started cutting both ways. They have been a boon for hundreds of thousands of homeowners who have rushed to refinance their mortgages at rates not seen since 1977. "It was definitely like finding money," says Michael Meyers, 41, a Chicago advertising-agency owner who swapped his 10.75% mortgage recently for one with a rate of just...
NATION: Call for a Cure...