Word: decentering
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SOME OF PENINSULA'S writers are decent, well-meaning folks. So it took me a very long time before I could get over the shock and anger that came with Peninsula's special double issue on homosexuality...
...predictable set of relationships among the great powers." He foresaw the "danger that the change in the East will prove too destabilizing to be sustained." He was thinking particularly about Yugoslavia, where he began his diplomatic career. He knew what ancient demons lurked in the Balkans, waiting, along with decent folk, to be liberated from communism...
...what we wished for, a medical miracle system -- but all its perilous side effects too. Medicine's amazing new tools have made decent health care a rich man's privilege, too expensive for the working poor and even many middle- class people. Moreover, America may be shackling its economy by investing too much in one industry. The U.S. currently devotes 12.3% of its gross national product to health care, up from 9.4% in 1980. At this rate, within 20 years Americans will be spending a third of all their resources on medicine. Says Daniel Callahan, the director of the Hastings...
This $110 billion program -- which started out 26 years ago with a budget of $5 billion -- was designed to provide decent care for the elderly. But the program gives the same benefits to those who are well-off as to the elderly poor. Though the elderly do pay some of the costs -- and staunchly resist bearing more of them -- nearly 90% of Medicare funds come from payroll taxes on workers. As a result, the burden falls partly on laborers who have no health insurance of their own and may have trouble making ends meet...
...Even at the end I thought if we has decent field position we could get back into it," Restic said. "I thought we'd come back in the second half and come out strong. We didn't want them to control the ball, and that's what they...