Word: infirm
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...there will be a situation very similar to the current one, in which one-third care, and two-thirds don't. The difference will be that legions of the old, the young, and the infirm will now have to wonder who belongs to which group...
...because the family is at the same time our "haven in a heartless world." Theoretically, and sometimes actually, the family nurtures warm, loving feelings, uncontaminated by greed or power hunger. Within the family, and often only within the family, individuals are loved "for themselves," whether or not they are infirm, incontinent, infantile or eccentric. The strong (adults and especially males) lie down peaceably with the small and weak...
...then, to level premiums without overburdening the healthy with the costs of the infirm? Some reformers want to set rates by gender or age, while others want to focus on life-style or income disparities. Clinton's own favored variation is along geographic lines, to account for the variation of health costs in different locales. Like many of the President's health proposals, this idea draws on experiments at the state level. Last year New York State homogenized premiums, permitting rates to vary only along an upstate-downstate divide...
CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...
...BOTTOM LINE: Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm...