Word: jointed
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...current health care benefits package that the University offers to members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), each worker is required to pay a $10 co-payment each time he or she or a family member visits the doctor. A proposal under consideration by the Joint Committee on Benefits (JCB), a committee consisting of faculty members, University administrators, and members of HUCTW, would cap the co-payments at $100 per family each year...
However, there is a flip side to co-payments that the Joint Committee on Benefits needs to consider. For individuals with chronic illness or for families, the seemingly minuscule $10 payment can become a serious burden. For a family with three small children, the accumulated co-payment costs from ear infections, sore throats and shots can add up to hundreds of dollars. A serious illness can require multiple medical visits each week, and these amassed co-payments can also be a severe strain on already tight paychecks. For many Harvard workers, these co-payments can eat up more and more...
...downside is that this makes me less approachable [to requests] by legitimate groups. My nose isn't particularly out of joint, but such antics put me on guard," he said...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Speaking before a joint session of Congress, French President Jacques Chirac said that his country has forever finished with its controversial nuclear testing program. Although Chirac announced an end to the testing two days ago, many Democrats boycotted the Capitol Hill speech. They charged that after conducting six nuclear tests over the past six months, the announcement came far too late. "We return the insult with our insult," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, congressional delegate from the District of Columbia. House Republicans late Wednesday night blocked an effort to withdraw Chirac's invitation. But despite a last-minute...
...Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Bosnian peace last fall and negotiated the terms of this withdrawal in a flurry of late night phone calls. President Clinton also called Greek and Turkish leaders, as did his national security adviser Anthony Lake, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and chairman of the Joint Chiefs General John Shalikashvili. "I asked them to move their forces away from that little island and find a diplomatic solution," Clinton told reporters. For now, they have. Says TIME's Mark Thompson: "I think they got in trouble and were looking for someone to bail them out. There...