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...only a maybe-candidate ostensibly free of having to measure the political effect of his views, Powell claims to be enjoying a rare moment of freedom: "I can now say exactly what I believe." Well, yes, in the midst of the conservative drift, Powell has indeed expressed some strong opinions. On race relations, he has forthrightly confirmed the obvious: "The playing field isn't level. Some forms of affirmative action are still needed." On welfare, Powell is almost alone in worrying about the kids who'll suffer when their mothers' benefits are cut. But overall, Powell has said...
...give up a lot of your personal life," Mayberry said with a sigh. "You get home at 11 p.m. one night and find out that you missed your mother's birthday...Friends soon begin to drift away...
...they merely received a stream of Russian in reply, even though English is the accepted language in international aviation. "They took that for acknowledgment, though," said Spenger, "because all knew that Minsk had been duly informed in advance." As the morning progressed, Spenger continued to monitor the balloons' eastward drift, reporting their positions every half hour to Minsk...
...case for individual storms, though. Atlantic hurricanes inevitably get their start in Africa, where hot, dry air overlying the Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...
...much of the burden of risk pooling on private insurers. There would be a tremendous incentive for insurers to "cherry pick"--to try to sign up healthier people--as is happening in a small way now with Medicare's HMO option. Even without purposeful discrimination, healthier people will naturally drift toward the cheaper, less elaborate plans, making them cheaper still--not because of greater efficiency but because of what is known as "adverse selection." The consequence? To avoid punishing sick people--simply for being sick--will require far more government regulation than free-market enthusiasts for managed competition care...