Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responsible not only for the performance but also for the direction of the play. Brown maximizes the dramatic effect with minimalist staging. The set, designed by James Murdoch, is sparse enough to accomodate the many different kinds of scenes...
...concerned that such a bill could have the effect of raising premiums or boosting the health-care costs of senior citizens, for which he would take the heat. But Leon Panetta, the White House chief of staff, now says the President would be willing to "look" at a minimalist bill...
...Republican attempt to fill the health care reform vacuum as Democrats' bills flag has run into troubles of its own. The Congressional Budget Office announced a minimalist plan by House Republican Leader Bob Michel of Illinois and Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi could have the unintended consequence of raising the cost of standard insurance plans, even threatening their existence...
...would be useful as leverage against a more conservative Senate bill when both went to the House-Senate conference committee to be reconciled. But Clinton's embrace of the Senate plan instantly made it harder to attract support for the Gephardt proposal, which is in competition with a minimalist plan sponsored by the G.O.P. leadership and two bipartisan alternatives, none of which feature employer mandates. Why should House members stick their neck out, they ask, by voting in favor of high employer mandates if the final House-Senate bill is more likely to resemble Mitchell's idea? With that...
...absolutely essential -- can get more than about 40 votes in the Senate. In fact, the only proposal thus far even approaching that mark is a Republican measure, unveiled last week by minority leader Bob Dole and backed by 39 of the Senate's 44 G.O.P. members. It is a minimalist bill, forcing insurers to cover some people they now reject and providing $100 billion in subsidies over five years to those too poor to afford the premiums -- and that's about it. The continuing divisions among Democrats and the new unity among Republicans raise more doubt than ever whether...