Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the early, innocent days of Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care task force, several members urged that the group look not only at what the Federal Government should do to control costs and extend health coverage to the uninsured but also at what it should stop doing. Their most notable suggestion: Washington might limit the tax exemption for employer-purchased health insurance, which costs the Treasury $74 billion a year and mainly works to subsidize generous health plans for the best-paid Americans. The exemption, they argued, fuels overspending on health care and helps drive the cost...
Already the dioceses are being adversely affected by squeamish insurance companies that expected church liabilities to include only tumbles down rain- soaked steps. Now they are reluctant to extend coverage and even to remit payment for expensive lawsuits. New Mexico's Santa Fe archdiocese has settled 48 cases within the past year against priests who served there. Some insurers, however, are stonewalling over payments. Just before Christmas, Archbishop Michael Sheehan claimed that bankruptcy loomed and asked for added financial assistance from parishioners at all 91 parishes in the archdiocese...
Washington -- A federal report due out this week will call for schools to sharply extend the amount of time students spend on their studies so they can compete with pupils in Germany and Japan. According to a Clinton Administration source, schools will be asked to double the roughly three hours a day that most children spend studying core academic subjects such as reading and math; the study will also recommend extending the school year to 240 days from the current average of about...
Jewett declined to explain why the extension was granted for just two years, but said "the decision was made that it would be preferable to extend the appointment for two years, and then do a regular review at that time...
...point was not (as your quote suggests) that such manuals are irrelevant; my point was that Harvard's resources for TFs extend far beyond a mere manual. If the manual were the only resource available to TFs, the Core program would be in trouble indeed. But Clearly that is very far from the case...