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...well nigh impossible, however, to completely capture a likeness in one fell swoop. The best caricaturists spend hours chained to their drawing boards, slogging away at their intended targets, trying to push and pull a satisfactory caricature into shape...
...they can see the cracks in the system -- and those gaps scare them. The prospect of an additional 30% increase in medical costs next year has prompted many employers to cut their work force, reduce health benefits, or both. At the same time, insurance companies are raising premiums to nigh unaffordable levels. Millions of workers are terrified of losing their coverage...
...doesn't know about.' " That is the deal every reporter makes. The real danger in the rush to subpoena reporters is not that news organizations will face expense or inconvenience but that stories that used to be hard to get will become -- as Procter & Gamble so plainly hoped -- well nigh impossible...
...about its timing have inevitably proved premature. The first Christians thought he would return to earth within their lifetime. As the Goths decimated imperial legions in the 4th century, St. Ambrose of Milan saw the Antichrist among the pagan invaders and proclaimed that the end of the world was nigh. A 12th century Cistercian abbot, Joachim of Flora, was quite precise: the Age of the Spirit, which he saw as the culmination of human history, would begin between A.D. 1200 and 1260. William Miller, the Baptist layman who founded the Adventist movement in America, was sure that the Second Coming...
Those attending the victory party last nigh ranged from battle-scarred veterans of Kennedy campaigns past and high school students working on their first political races...