Word: ham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is nothing wrong with squeezing health-care suppliers; Medicare has been a gold mine for them, and the government--as the nation's largest purchaser of health care--has the right and duty to get the best deal it can. But past efforts have been ham-handed and may have reached their limits. And without a market mechanism at work, it is impossible to say whether a provider is charging too much, not enough or just the right amount...
...Psychological Operations Group, which prepares the taped messages that Commando Solo airs, have considered morphing the image of a foreign leader and putting words in his mouth to get him in trouble--for instance, Saddam Hussein appearing on Iraqi TV before the Gulf War, sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander...
People offered me drugs, alcohol and ham-burgers in return for promising to run their picture in the paper. It wasn't long before I found out that potatoes, the namesake crop of the festival, were not the only greenery to be found in the county's fields...
...Philosopher Ronald de Sousa once memorably described philosophical theology as `tennis without a net'...But we can lower it if you [i.e. the religious believer] really want to...Whatever you serve, suppose I return service rudely as follows: `What you say implies that God is a ham sandwich wrapped in tinfoil. That's not much of a God to worship!" If you then...[demand] to know how I can Iogically justify my claim...I will reply; `Oh, do you want the net up for my returns...
...live to see the day Caruso sends himself up. For he seems to believe inwardness is a guarantee of integrity, a signal that a whole lot of serious acting--too fine for him to share fully with us--is going on inside his head. Me? I'll have the ham sandwich, thanks...