Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT the people of the U.S. ought to have done may be debatable in many areas and in many details. What has been most conspicuously left undone involves health. As long ago as 1883, Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (who could hardly be called socialistic or radical) gave Imperial Germany the world's first Sickness Insurance Act, covering workers and their families. Similar benefits now protect the people of virtually every industrialized nation in the world. But not Americans. Only now are influential members of both parties in Congress giving serious consideration to proposals for blanketing the nation...
What the Administration is doing, commendably, is trying to iron out some of the wrinkles that have caused needless overruns in the costs of Medicare and Medicaid. It is proposing that contractors (such as Blue Cross, Blue Shield or group health plans) be authorized to assume responsibility for the total care of Medicare patients for a flat annual fee that would be no more than the current per-patient costs of Medicare from both taxes and the voluntary part...
...environments": a store window, before a mirror, or-in The Aerial View, the most elaborate image in Segal's new show-contemplating a diorama of New York at night. The Bowery shows an alcoholic collapsed on the pavement, with a man leaning casually against the rusty iron of a closed shopfront and staring neutrally at him. "I wasn't at all interested in the bum," says Segal. "What interests me is the uninvolved spectator there, and what's going through his head." Precisely. The unvarying subject of Segal's art is loneliness, alienation, and a tremulous...
These masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse, or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladder's start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...Concord, some of the longer hitters have to use a number three wood or even an iron off the tee because if they hit the ball well with a driver, they could end up in the woods." Sherman said...