Word: health
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...certain car purchases - incentives that won't last forever. State subsidies have also been given to rural residents to spur sales of refrigerators and washing machines. Though the government is implementing longer-lasting plans to convince citizens to spend more money (including a $125 billion program to improve national health care, especially in less developed regions), those efforts will take years to reach their full impact...
...self and feeling sorry for the filmmakers. I read McCarthy's lean, brutalizing novel in one unhappy gulp 15 months ago and only recently began to consider myself healed. How do you lure people to a movie made from a book that itself probably should have borne a mental-health warning from the surgeon general? Do you target the innocents or the masochists...
SARAH PALIN, criticizing President Barack Obama's health care and energy proposals during an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters...
...controversy magnet, attracting devoted fans and bringing out the worst in some critics, drawing sexist insults (an opponent once called her a Spice Girl, she writes) and snooty dismissals (which only boost her outsider image). She has a knack for sound bites, as when she inflamed the health care debate with two words, death panels, on Facebook...
Psychology Professor Anita Blanchard has a pretty sweet deal with her employer. Even if the 40-something mother of three leaves her job at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the state of North Carolina guarantees her premium-free health insurance that will cover 80% of her health care costs for life. But's there's a hitch: she can't gain too much weight or start smoking. If she does, she could be on the hook for an additional 10% of her health care...