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...economic growth--doesn't need the additional burden of finding and securing health plans for its workers. The notion of offering "health security" to the 41 million Americans who don't have insurance--an idea that every Democrat is likely to endorse in one form or another--can be done more simply (and for about one-third of Gephardt's $247 billion a year) by offering tax credits and subsidies to individuals who don't have health insurance...
...wedding party would balloon to 15 people, the full wedding to 300--and the event, they estimated, would set them back $30,000 or more. The Hammers chose instead to wed barefoot on Smathers Beach in Key West, Fla., in front of 72 close friends and family members, for one-third the cost. "No matter where we had a wedding, half my family would have had to travel," says David, 28. "Why not have everyone take off for a week to somewhere truly beautiful...
Other credit unions are aggressively swallowing smaller ones, aiming to gain the critical mass to become more like one-stop financial-service centers. Since 1995, Dallas-based Advancial has acquired 15,000 new members at 250 companies, including Perot Systems and Brinker International. Advancial's head of strategic development, Dave Selsky, courts companies whose employees have good credit ratings and steady jobs and turns down one-third of the firms that want to join. As a result of such policies, Advancial is rated one of the nation's safest credit unions...
...innocent citizens in Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico. Perhaps the purest expression of a bloody Marxist revolution took place during a few years in the 1970s, when Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge exterminated 2.5 million of their 7 million souls. Over one-third of the population was intentionally murdered—and this number excludes the 1.5 million more killed in war or rebellion...
...leaders who met the next morning represented just a first round: about one-third were Iraqi exiles; the rest were drawn from inside the country. "At the beginning there was a sense of a standoff between the outsiders and the insiders, but as the day wore on, you saw them sitting down with each other at the tables. I thought that was a good thing," says Garner. One Shi'ite cleric stood up and quoted Abraham Lincoln, much to Garner's delight...