Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bernie's wife at that point, Betty had some extra insight into what his retirement might mean to their marriage. She's a psychotherapist who has been counseling couples for 25 years. She knew that not every couple is prepared for the growing phenomenon she and Bernie faced: the half-retired marriage...
...ideas about how to cover the uninsured. Most congressional Democrats favor the Clinton plan, which would create a new Medicare benefit for prescription drugs, to be called Medicare Part D. For about $24 a month, those who choose the plan would have no deductible, but they would pay for half of their prescription drug costs, up to $5,000. Single seniors making $11,000 or less and senior couples making less than $17,000 would be spared the co-payment cost...
Then there is his leisure time. Once a month, the former college professor sits in on classes as a student at Georgia Tech, and spends half a day at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A month ago, with the birth of his daughter's daughter, he became a grandfather. "I'm so happy being in private life that I felt the absence of frustration," he notes. "So I took up golf...
...spots that Washington wants to keep from becoming global conflagrations. So the Army's admission that the 10th Mountain Division and the First Infantry Division are not ready for war is surprising only until one learns why: their commanders secretly rated the units unfit for combat because up to half of their troops--less than 1% of the active-duty military--were busy tending to peacekeeping duties in Bosnia and Kosovo...
...tank with lighter--perhaps even wheeled--vehicles. It is considering the possibility of cutting production of its $48 billion fleet of nearly 1,300 Comanche helicopters, a program conceived a generation ago to battle the Soviet military. And it is thinking of slashing by more than half its $22 billion purchase of 1,100 Crusader self-propelled howitzers (which weigh 110 tons each, with a supply vehicle). But despite these potential cutbacks, the momentum of previous appropriations will push the Army into spending tens of billions of dollars on cold war arms ill suited for tomorrow's battles...