Word: favors
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...bureaucracies are maybe less mission-oriented than private citizens that put up their own money. Very often, this is how we use money at our foundation, to set examples or to innovate in ways that the public authorities by themselves are unlikely to do. Generally speaking, I'm in favor of [using my money to] influence how public authorities spend their money...
...rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven in 2004 to three. "Times of unhappiness tend to favor extremist parties," says Dominique Reynié, director of Paris-based think tank Foundation for Political Innovation. "This time people judged the crisis as sufficiently grave that they stuck with mainstream parties they felt best placed to move things ahead." (Read: "Europe's Voters Reward the Right...
...including collaborating with their onetime adversary, the health-reform-advocacy organization Families USA, to bring back "Harry and Louise," the fictitious couple whose ad campaign did so much to kill a health-care overhaul when the Clintons tried it in 1994. This time, Harry and Louise are arguing in favor of reform. (Read TIME's exclusive interview with President Obama...
...high," says Charles Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, a lobbying group for investor-owned hospitals, and a former lobbyist for the insurance industry during Bill Clinton's health-care reform battle in the 1990s. Essentially, a wider "age band," like the 5-to-1 ratio insurers favor, would allow them to charge higher amounts to middle-aged people not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare, while keeping younger people's premiums much lower. In a recent letter to Henry Waxman - chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of five congressional committees with jurisdiction over...
...economy continues to flounder, many families are forgoing summer vacations in favor of staying at home. But there's a more interesting option that is just as cheap: vacationing in someone else's home. Growing numbers of people here and abroad are seeking a thrifty change of scenery by skipping all the hotels and looking instead to swap houses with strangers. Agree to use each other's cars, and you can save big bucks on rentals...