Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multimillion-dollar lawsuits--had begun to change that. Ten states require insurers to cover transplants; most health plans elsewhere in the U.S.--seeing which way the legislative wind was blowing--have decided to go along too. Patients know, however, that a company that makes up its mind to offer coverage can later change it, and that laws requiring reimbursement can always be rewritten...
...HMOs that have been disinclined to offer coverage, however, last week's news offers little incentive to do things differently. Legislative pressure--plus the ongoing threat of more jackpot lawsuits--may yet force the hands of those holdouts. But whether that will be enough for women like Tawnya Geisbush, still awaiting an O.K. from her insurer, is unclear. "I have a fairly small window of time to work with," she says. By the time the company is persuaded, one way or the other, her window may have already closed...
...ideas are meant to contrast with the poll-tested, bite-size notions Gore has been promoting lately (a telephone hot line for traffic-jam updates, an airline passenger's bill of rights), but Bradley won't offer details or even hint at how he would get these big things done. ("Come fall, we'll be making a series of major proposals," he says.) For now, at least, people don't seem to mind. His call for reform has helped establish a beachhead in New Hampshire, a contrarian state famous for punishing front runners and lifting underdogs. Gore has the state...
...cast is certainly tony: Neeson; art-house sex pistol Ewan McGregor as young Obi-Wan; Ingmar Bergman favorite Pernilla August as Anakin's mother; Natalie Portman (Broadway's Anne Frank) as the young Queen; and, brooding on the Jedi Council, Samuel L. Jackson. The completed film will offer definitive evidence, but for now there is reason to give Episode 1 the subtitle of the original Star Wars movie: A New Hope...
MOYERS: When Darth Vader tempts Luke to come over to the Empire side, offering him all that the Empire has to offer, I am taken back to the story of Satan taking Christ to the mountain and offering him the kingdoms of the world, if only he will turn away from his mission. Was that conscious in your mind...