Word: launching
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...Democrats, who have seen this coming, are using the 30th anniversary of Medicare to launch their pre-emptive strike. "I got the message of the 1994 election," Clinton declared at a birthday rally, "and I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Again and again, the President poked at the soft spots in the G.O.P. numbers, charging that the $270 billion taken out of Medicare would be used to pay for the G.O.P.'s $245 billion in tax cuts "for people who don't need it." Gingrich replied that Clinton was trying to scare senior citizens...
...said. nato already has plans for such air raids, ranging from close support of troops on the ground to a "regional" bombing campaign, although the relevant U.N. resolution authorizes strikes only in and around a safe area. It was still unclear just who would make the decision to launch those strikes. At one point Christopher said, "The people of Bosnia simply cannot afford any more empty threats," thereby suggesting, perhaps unwittingly, that the many previous challenges to the Serbs had been bluffs...
...internal troubles. Within the past year, he says, he put the bureau's 24 special agents in charge on notice that he would be watching closely to ensure they dispense disciplinary action consistently and fairly, but he was not satisfied with the results. Now he is about to launch a five-member professional review committee that will examine every internal investigation and vote on the discipline required. He also established eight peer groups to give black agents, female agents and six other subgroups--including white males--a clear channel for venting grievances...
...week, privately telling friends that "no one is cowed or bowed" at ADM and publicly pledging the company's cooperation with the FBI. The scrutiny of ADM has prompted a sense of poetic justice in some members of the Chicago Board of Trade, as ADM helped FBI agents launch a 1989 sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole sweet irony of their getting...
...doctors and shortened hospital stays. Unlicensed "care partners" have been hired to take over some of the more routine duties of higher-paid registered nurses. And in a kind of if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, UCLA is purchasing Santa Monica Hospital in order to launch its own managed-care network. It is also cutting deals with local HMOS -- for example, to perform all transplant surgery for subscribers to the giant Kaiser Permanente plan in Southern California...