Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that seems like the kind of overwhelming force Clark had in mind in 1975, still fresh from being wounded in Vietnam and winning a Silver Star for valor, it's not. This campaign is all about controlled force--controlled by politicians in everything from target selection to level of intensity--and that control is making Clark's job more complicated than he could have ever imagined...
...ineligible for coverage under the terms of Trustmark's policy. "Whether it's a $100,000 charge or a $10 charge, we make our decisions based on that contract language," says Lloyd Sarrel, Trustmark's assistant vice president for benefits. Geisbush, understandably, has bigger things than contracts on her mind. "I'm in a fight for my life," she says. "I shouldn't be having this fight with the insurance company...
...plus a few multimillion-dollar lawsuits--had begun to change that. Ten states require insurers to cover transplants; most health plans elsewhere in the U.S.--seeing which way the legislative wind was blowing--have decided to go along too. Patients know, however, that a company that makes up its mind to offer coverage can later change it, and that laws requiring reimbursement can always be rewritten...
...form of sexual expression, Bagemihl believes such political questions may be beside the point. "We shouldn't have to look to the animal world to see what's normal or ethical," he says. Indeed, when it comes to answering those questions, Mother Nature seems to be keeping an open mind...
...Claremont, near the Vermont border--are suffering through their second straight campaign day. For the former New Jersey Senator, an insurgent trying to grab the Democratic nomination from Al Gore, genteel shabbiness signifies authenticity. Bradley wants you to know he's got bigger things--purer things--on his mind, and the doughnut shop is packed with people who have come to hear about them (and a few who just want coffee and crullers). Ten months before the primary, voters still outnumber reporters at events like this; the process hasn't yet become ghastly and surreal, and Bradley works the room...