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...designed to save. There is no visible evidence that Clinton has learned much from all this, other than the need to demonstrate conspicuously that he has learned something from it. Like any negotiator, he won't give up anything now that he can use later to extract concessions. He has stopped telling his friends that a censure deal is out of the question. He may drop the legal jitterbugging, but he's not ready to admit that he lied in either of his testimonies. That can come later. "Why should he give up perjury now if that's where...
...medical care became a trillion-dollar industry, investors who had made a killing in other sectors shifted their sights to the health-care industry. Managed care is seen as the most efficient way to extract new gold. The less doctors and hospitals provide, the more money they can make. The results: record gains--hospital profits alone hit a high of $21.3 billion in 1996, up 25% from 1995--while more Americans than ever are uninsured. Most of the proposed, limited reforms will merely confine the worst abuses. What is needed is not containment but a fundamental overhaul. ROSE ANN DEMORO...
...trying a balancing act. Firms like Barr Rosenberg and Euclid Advisers have launched market-neutral funds, which bet equal amounts of a portfolio on stocks to rise and fall. The funds are touted as a low-risk investment, but the high fees and taxes--and relatively low returns--extract a high price for security...
Indeed, some analysts see the nuclear tests as a gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...task extends beyond exploring the scriptures. Hailed as one of the seven best preachers in America, Gomes satiates the religious appetite with sermons that his audience savors, replete with advice on how to join the practical to the spiritual--from how to focus for an exam to how to extract principles out of an amoral world...