Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complexity and confusion, though, delivery of the draft bill marked what Budget Director Leon Panetta, borrowing a line from Winston Churchill, called "the end of the beginning" in the great national-health- care debate. For months that debate has focused on ideas, generalities, trial balloons, leaked outlines. Now it can zero in on the specifications of an actual draft bill. Not necessarily one bearing much resemblance to what Congress may eventually pass, however. Said Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "I'm willing to wager that the final product will be considerably different from any bill that has been proposed...
...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...Leon Tec M.D., child psychiatrist and author of Targets and Fear of Success, says that Harvard students and professors probably have as many fears as everyone else. Yet MIT might outrank the Real World and Harvard: While "people who have a good understanding of what is going on need not be more anxious," he says, "scientists don't necessarily have more perspective. MIT may have more people with anxiety dreams. There are more suicides...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...