Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Steve Forbes and a lot about American politics. A dark-horse candidate usually has to win something, or lose by less than expected, before he can hope to insert himself into the national imagination. Forbes is not the first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place in four key primary and caucus states, surrounded by reporters wherever he goes, seeing his flat-tax gospel embraced...
...decision to enter the race this year owes much to a broken heart: Forbes was long a devoted backer of Jack Kemp, having chaired Empower America, the refuge for conservatives like Kemp and Bill Bennett. Had Kemp entered the race, Forbes would be snug at home editing his magazine right now. But when the vacuum opened, Wall Street Journal writer turned political consultant Jude Wanniski, another New Jersey neighbor, faxed Forbes a memo late last spring about how it all could work. Forbes pondered...and pondered. He was very tempted, and very cautious, and so decided to do some market...
Among the 1,600 first-years who enter Harvard College every September, there are some who don't seem quite as lost as others...
...National Institutes of Health tended to pay only for big-ticket basic science. Colorado's Dr. Jones accuses HMOs of placing medicine in a double bind. "Is it reasonable," he asks, "for an insurer to demand the gold standard of proof and simultaneously refuse to pay for patients to enter a trial to get that level of proof?" Dr. Jones is convinced that women who once would have come to him for a transplant aren't coming because their doctors, operating under tight managed-care cost guidelines, aren't telling them that transplants are a medical option. "You put yourself...
...chief sponsors are Republicans Jack Fields of Texas, who chairs the House telecommunications panel, and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. They argue that small TV broadcasters still need the subsidy, since they would be squeezed out of a spectrum auction by rich new competitors like AT&T, which can enter the TV business under the new law. Both large and small broadcasters are fighting back against Dole, noting that they will return the new channels after 15 years. Besides, they argue, without free airwaves they would have to charge viewers for digital programs. "No one can pay for the digital...