Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case, Medicaid is not the largest health insurance monster that the Republicans will have to confront. Medicare, as the primary insurer for 31 million Americans, outranks Medicaid's 21 million. Unfortunately, Republicans shudder with the mention of cuts in any program for the elderly, one of their prime constituencies. They'll probably end up leaving Medicare for 1997, with the hope that a Republican president will make their job easier...
...might be expected, officials at the FDA are not sure the proposal is a good idea. "The journals are not always right," argues William Schultz, one of the agency's deputy commissioners. And there is nothing to stop companies from sending only those articles that mention their products favorably and omitting negative reports. The worst outcome, say critics, would be if manufacturers used the relaxed rules to adopt a sort of bait-and-switch research program. They could, for example, seek approval from the FDA for an indication that is easy and inexpensive to prove but not widely useful. Then...
...about this outstanding puzzle from Wright: "Natural selection...is our creator, but it isn't God." Why would not our creator be our God? Why is not God our creator? If God is not our creator, then he is nothing; and if he is nothing, then why even mention him? Wright should stick with the Unabomber. He's more relevant today. OWEN W. DYKEMA West Hills, California Via America Online...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
Describe the event briefly, specifying its time and location. Be sure to leave a contact name and phone number. If anything worthy of a photo will be taking place, you might mention that as well...