Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catastrophic health insurance proposal has three key parts. First, those eligible for Medicare will be protected by expansion of their present benefits. Second, the large majority of the employed will be assured of the availability of adequate private insurance protection. Third, those who are part of the residual marketplace, and not already covered, may choose to have the Federal Government serve, in some instances, as a financial backup, in contracting with the private insurance companies for catastrophic coverage...
...word of storms moving east from the border near the Texas Panhandle. It has already loosed four aircraft, including one armor-plated job equipped to penetrate the severest storms. Six special Doppler radars, which are sensitive even to frequency changes in falling raindrops, have been focused on the western part of the state. And three storm chase vehicles like Moore's are rolling westward...
Severe weather is expected all over the state, and the scientists at the Norman laboratory, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) laboratory, have just launched the second part of a ten-week storm project called Sesame 79. Part 1 examined regional atmospheric conditions. Part 2 is aimed at collecting data from specific storms. Nobody in the Great Plains is pleased to learn that a tornado is on the way. But these scientists, engaged in a $3.5 million project to help measure and ultimately predict tornadoes and severe storms, are excusably excited...
...Most of the heirs of the 275 victims will file lawsuits against McDonnell Douglas. Estimates put its potential payout at around $100 million. The greatest part of the damages would be covered by insurers, but the company itself would have to pay any punitive awards...
...would be sad to believe," he said, "that each Pole and Slav in any part of the world is unable ^ to hear the words of the Pope, this Slav. I hope they hear me." Many did, but no thanks to the Communist state media. Soviet television carried a 30-second clip on the Pope's arrival, but refused to show its audience the hundreds of thousands