Word: needing
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...poisoned on both sides. Patients may insist on the most conscientious care and yet balk at the battery of tests that doctors order to cover themselves. "You come in for an ingrown toenail, and they turn you inside out giving you all kinds of tests that you don't need," says columnist Ann Landers, who receives complaints from all concerned. "The bill is horrendous. The doctors want to be able to prove that they didn't miss anything. It makes people mad, and I don't blame them...
...downturn is at least partly the result of selling so many cars in the past few years. "The fleet is quite young, the warranties are longer, and the quality is better. People don't feel a pressing need for new cars," says Arvid Jouppi, who follows the industry for Keane Securities in Detroit. The boom has flooded the market with used cars, which are now selling at a steep discount, making them a more attractive alternative to new models. A two-year- old Ford Tempo, for example, sells for $3,500 less than...
...great mistakes of liberals in recent decades has been the ceding of moral concern to right-wingers. Just because one opposes censorship, one need not be seen as agreeing with pornographers. Why should liberals, of all people, oppose Gore when she asks that labels be put on products meant for the young, to inform those entrusted by law with the care of the young? Liberals were the first to promote "healthy" television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence...
...true Communist society (not that there has ever been one, but this is what the Soviets were aiming for), there's little incentive to produce. The well-known goal is "from each according to his abilities, to each according % to his needs." That is a noble concept, but because it separates what people get from how they perform -- they get what they need regardless of how they perform -- it ultimately fails...
...falling energy costs. The Government reported last week that consumer prices last month increased at an annual rate of just 2%, the slowest pace in 16 months. While Greenspan said he sees inflation as a lingering menace, he confirmed that for the moment it has been eclipsed by a need to keep the economy afloat. As a result, interest rates on three-month Treasury bills have fallen from a high of 9.4% in late March to 7.9% last week. The clarity of the Fed's purpose has sent Wall Street on a bullish stampede to post-October 1987-crash highs...