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...take action, a provision would take effect in 2002 requiring employers in companies with more than 25 workers to pay 50% of their workers' insurance costs. That two-stage procedure manages to acknowledge Clinton's ever fainter insistence on universal coverage while it offers Congress one of those agreeably far-off target dates -- the turn of the century, no less -- that lawmakers cherish...
...very successful "Profscam" has been pulled on the undergraduate population, the obvious answer is that TFs are really "teaching assistants" who do not have, and are not expected to have, as much knowledge about a subject as a full-time professor. Being a TF prepares graduate students for that far-off day when they will become professors; in a sense, undergraduates are the guinea pigs for the teaching techniques of rookie teachers...
With all the conflicting testimony, aresolution to the controversy seems far-off. Bothsides claim that morality and science supporttheir cause, but the moral and scientific factsare unclear...
There's no need to go to mysterious far-off lands this Spring Break in order to bond with strangers, test the limits of your tolerance, and find a core of inner strength. A short ride on the red line will bring you to that mecca of self-discovery known as Filene's Basement...
...wears a white coat of radiant purity and is bathed in the light of an early spring morning. Behind him stretch the green pastures of a transfigured Russia, Poussin (as it were) with tractors and electricity pylons, and shy plumes of smoke rising to greet the socialist dawn from far-off factories. As Dante wrote, in God's will is our peace. No future Chernobyls here...