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Just how much does your insurance company know about your pesky gall bladder? More than you might think, according to recent studies. "People would be surprised to learn how much privacy they don't have," says TIME writer Daniel Eisenberg. And as new technologies continue to facilitate the sharing of all sorts of personal information between insurance providers, medical systems and marketing companies, President Clinton is poised to propose new privacy guidelines to protect consumers. The White House regulations, set to be released in the next week or two, would restrict access to patients' medical records, requiring health plans...
...question,=Tough day?=They called me,=they=aJeopardy called me. They want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know if I want to do it and....=Jeopardy=Jeopardy=crashed and burned.<= Maybe it was fate getting back at him for having the gall to look down at the screen displaying his winnings during the opening segment. Or perhaps it was the several on-camera interactions that made Alex Trebek look like the dope he is. In any event, Dave was sent packing, albeit $16,400 richer...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...would-be Great War veteran would grow rich serving the children of World War II vets. His confidence in what he had seen was unshakable. As he noted later, "I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced that the best was ahead of me." He was even more convinced than the McDonalds and eventually cajoled them into selling out to him in 1961 for a paltry $2.7 million...
Owners like Kraft would not have the gall to make such demands if they didn't know all too well that many cities and states are willing to give in to them...