Word: modestly
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...community rating aimed to spread the risk of medical costs by charging a single premium, regardless of age, gender, income or medical condition. Over the past two decades, however, "experience rating" has become more popular. It enables insurance companies to "cream skim" low-risk groups and offer them modest premiums, then "cherry pick" the people within that group who pose high health risks and either raise their policy costs or deny them coverage. The result is so unfair that 40 states have restricted or prohibited the practice. "What you end up with," says Henry Bachofer, chief lobbyist for the Blue...
...from Get Smart), Boris and Natasha (from Rocky and his Friends), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and this year's Car 54, Where Are You? But enough of these tele-visions will emulate the smash status of last year's The Fugitive or at least achieve the same modest earnings as The Beverly Hillbillies to give Hollywood what it wants most: a solid, safe return on its investment. Ask producer Alan Ladd Jr. about his low-budget (about $12 million) version of The Brady Bunch, and he will spell it out in numbers: "The risk factor isn't high...
...congressional health-care analyst: "A lot of us are worried that the White House badly needs a reality check. Clinton and his people are out of touch with what the public will accept and what Congress will vote for." The message: unless Clinton can settle for a more modest health plan in '94, he might have to start thinking about...
Harvard may never realize the greatness since he is one of the most modest people I have met at this school. He would be the first to place the credit for the Council's great successes with anyone but himself...
WASHINGTON -- BILL and HILLARY CLINTON, normally slow to plan their summer vacations, are getting an early start this year. The Clintons are interested ; in returning to Martha's Vineyard, but this time they want a spread that is a bit more lavish than the modest digs provided last August by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The Secret Service has begun to do some advance checking on the island but hasn't yet found a suitable house. Apparently nobody who has a place large enough to suit the First Family wants to give it up and miss the chance to hobnob...