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...would come from giving states fixed amounts per recipient. The President's plan also would limit payments to hospitals in large urban areas which treat many Medicaid patients. Since the Administration proposal guarantees benefits to anyone meeting federal guidelines, while reducing the federal share of the costs, many governors object to being forced to foot the bill for a program the federal government controls. The governors have plenty of experience with that sort of federal tactic. Last year, state and local governments picked up 42 percent of the $159 billion Medicaid bill. Governors, including Bill Clinton when he was governor...
...dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C's. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them...
...astronomy whose lectures, books and TV appearances brought the majesty of the universe to ordinary earthlings; of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone-marrow disease; in Seattle. Sagan's mantra of "billions and billions" of stars from his award-winning 1980 PBS series Cosmos became both the object of parody and popular shorthand for the vastness of the universe. The show attracted a global audience of more than 500 million people in 60 countries. A prolific writer, Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden, a book on the evolution of human intelligence...
Sounds tidy, if a little unoriginal, as the proposed ratings vary only slightly from the well-known M.P.A.A. ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17) affixed to theatrical movies. What many child advocates object to is that the ratings would not specify the content that makes a show potentially objectionable. The advocates were hoping for a system closer to one being tested in Canada that rates shows, on a sliding scale of 1 to 6, in each of three areas: violence, sex and language...
Another wonderful scene is the demonstration of the abilities of several deaf-mutes from a special education center. The deaf-mutes are at first an object of ridicule for the courtiers. After all, since they can't speak, they are necessarily excluded from the routine exchanges of quips that form the backbone of court life. But as the scene progresses, the deaf-mutes respond with their own wit, in their own language, with "plays on signs" that the court cannot understand, because they in their turn are excluded by language...