Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a ridiculous auto insurance system. Why sell auto insurance one policy at a time when we require almost everyone, by law, to buy it? States should adopt "Pay-at-the-Pump Private No-Fault Auto Insurance" plans that would collect the same premiums we currently collect -- but automatically, efficiently, at the gas pump. (Claims would be handled just as they are now, by State Farm, Allstate and the like. But they would bid for blocks of business, much as they now bid for group health insurance business.) You will be hearing more about this, because all the obvious objections...
...with confessional shows in which a parade of citizens and their role models, from LaToya Jackson to Roseanne Arnold, rise to denounce the sins of their parents. The cult of the abused Inner Child has a very important use in modern America: it tells you that nothing is your fault, that personal grievance transcends political utterance...
...fault? Reagan, the Japanese, Saddam Hussein, Derek Bok? I'd say it was mostly MTV and CNN. MTV fostered our evil video generation, while CNN taught us that watching TV is sometimes more beneficial than going to class...
...were required reading in the executive suite. The practitioners were effective in at least one respect: their massive layoffs, often executed with the finesse of a Marine drill instructor, have left the atmosphere at many firms thick with hostility. "I feel like I'm walking along a geological fault line within U.S. companies," says Robert Rosen, author of a recent book, The Healthy Company. "There is more frustration and tension between employers and their employees than I've ever seen. Mutual cynicism and mistrust seem to be at an all-time high...
With his special brand of mystical nationalism, Gamsakhurdia had become such a commanding figure on the Georgian political stage that it is hard to see how any of the current leaders could aspire to replace him. Fault lines have already begun to show in the loosely united anti-Gamsakhurdia alliance, especially between the politicians and the paramilitary men. "The council's only uniting factor has been opposition to Gamsakhurdia," said a British diplomat. "Now that he is gone, they are falling out among themselves." Not all its members are equally committed to parliamentary democracy and presidential rule. Georgi Chanturia...