Word: holde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through, how well-prepared they are to honorably lead soldiers into battle when they graduate? People at Harvard have their cute anti-militarisms and their stereotypes about the bigoted homophobes in military barracks. But they can't erase the fact that the men and women in the armed services hold their lives out to us each and every day and say "here, this is for you and your freedom." It's a precious gift that should be treated like gold. Can we give it nothing more than indifference and contempt...
...which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold. Although the spending caps are likely to be exceeded, a long and bitter debate will certainly come first, as programs jockey for funding...
...wallets, and Democrat-friendly HMOs were perceived as the last line of defense for the poor and the working-class. Oh, how times have changed. Doctors, once the most privileged of American workers, now face plummeting incomes and diminishing control over their practices. HMOs, virtually omnipotent in many states, hold the purse strings, and the IVs ?- health plans? accountants exercise more control over medical treatments than some doctors. Hey, M.D., M.B.A. ?- what?s the difference...
...programs are available for it on the Net, many of them free, as well as offline. And just like the original Palm Pilot, it's comparatively cheap. (Clearly, the Palm Pilot inventors, who went on to found Handspring, learned from their success, and are using it as a springboard--hold on to that word--for their Visor.) The basic model sells for $149, but you'll need to shell out another $30 if you want a cradle for synching it with your PC or Macintosh. The "deluxe" unit is $249; with 8 MB of RAM, it has four times...
Next came industrial espionage. Orey introduces an engaging, skittish misfit named Merrell Williams, a Ph.D. in theater with an intermittent drinking problem and an inability to hold a job until he went to work as a paralegal doing closely held research for Brown & Williamson Tobacco. The object of Williams' work was to determine what B&W execs knew about the effects of tobacco and when they knew it, to help company lawyers fight future damage claims. Out of a sometimes fuddled sense of righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which...