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...significance remains. The Goodrich family found justice where few can. Under the 1974 Employment Retirement Income Security Act, more than 125 million Americans currently covered by their employer's HMO programs cannot sue their provider for punitive damages. It doesn't matter if the HMO manager is a bumbling idiot or a devious scrooge. It doesn't matter even if the patient dies or loses a limb to negligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Vs. HMOs | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Anyone who doesn't appreciate the Constitutionwe've been imbued with... really is an idiot,"Stoller said...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Impeachment Forces Clash At Campus Rally | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

...have to buy all the books for every class, but I did," D'Alto says. "I'm a freshman, I'm an idiot. I spent a lot of money...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...rightists--and lobby for laws to prevent activists from harassing them in the woods as they hunt. When hunters bring a buck home from the woods, they are less inclined to tie the carcass on the fender or luggage rack; they hide it under a tarp. The image of idiot hunters fueled by beer and bourbon and blazing away at anything that moves in the forest--sometimes firing from the cabs of pickups--has made many hunters sheepish. They have developed a sense of image and public relations. Any residual tendency toward the killer's swagger has been replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Though that scene isn't with us yet, it's feeling eerily close. Standards for room-to-room PC networking and the conversant appliance continue to creep toward the mainstream (and each other). Madison Avenue's trumpets blare for bold (and still overpriced) idiot-box breakthroughs like high-definition television (HDTV) and $15,000 gas-plasma sets that cling to the wall like framed art. Still, 1998 was a year for improvements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1998 Technology Buyer's Guide: All The Best | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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