Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catastrophic-health-care program, which lobbying groups for the elderly hailed at its passage, imposed an annual surtax of up to $800 on well-heeled Medicare beneficiaries, who balked at having to pay for benefits that were often duplicated by their private insurance. Last summer they began an intense, well-organized campaign for repeal, even though it could mean eliminating the entire program and leaving millions of needy seniors uncovered. The House voted overwhelmingly to do just that on Oct. 4, but the Senate, while inclined to eliminate the surtax, is trying to keep some parts of the program...
...conduct of affairs, meanwhile, the Federal Government is suffering from malnutrition. The Administration still has not nominated anyone for 77 senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is still well below the level that existed before Reagan fired striking air controllers in 1981 and is using outmoded equipment to track near gridlock in the skies...
...energizing seeds, compelling them to produce larger crops. When Chumak was yanked off the air by skeptical superiors, a popular outcry brought him back. A Siberian fan in Bratsk wrote to a newspaper, "Here we can't buy medicine and we have no hope left for the Soviet health system. Don't criticize those who are trying to relieve our sufferings...
...simply speedy service and knowledgeable staff that have brought on such robust health. Variety of stock is another major factor. For example, a reader can find John Irving's latest novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, among the 15,000 or so titles typically carried by a chain store, but in all likelihood will not locate Irving's earlier books. Chain stores need fast turnover; they have little space for backlisted books. By contrast, a shop like Manhattan's Shakespeare & Co., which carries 64,000 titles, will stock practically the entire Irving oeuvre...
...only last July that pro-life forces were cheering themselves hoarse? After years of battling in the streets, the legislatures and the courts, they had won their greatest victory: a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Inc. that gives states enhanced power to restrict abortions. It was only a matter of time, pro-lifers predicted, before abortions were severely restricted, if not banned...