Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, the Republicans attacked his proposed premium increase as a tax hike, labeling the whole plan another sneaky attempt at government control of health care. Many Democrats are spoiling for a fight, hoping a messy display might win back the hearts of seniors who embraced the G.O.P. in the past two elections...
...recent survey. The number of medications in development for diseases associated with the elderly has grown from 225 a decade ago to 648 today. The increased number of prescriptions and the rising cost per pill mean seniors are on a treadmill of ever increasing expenditures. In the past five years national spending for all prescription drugs increased almost 60%. That pace is expected to continue. As seniors become more dependent on these remedies, they are also subjecting themselves to the increasing cost of the medicines. While only a third of Medicare recipients are completely without drug coverage of any kind...
...short, Asia will probably not have the same problems over the next two years that it had over the past two, but it is at considerable risk of having different problems. It ain't over until the sumo wrestler sings...
More than 80% of new college graduates interned at least once in their university career, according to Samer Hamadeh, co-author of The Internship Bible. He estimates that the number of interns has doubled in the past decade. Peterson's Summer Opportunities for Kids & Teenagers contains 1,800 entries this year--internships, specialized camps and summer-abroad programs--nearly twice the 1995 number. Summer-school enrollment is on the rise, as are prep courses for the SATs; the Princeton Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house...
With a thriving Ob-Gyn practice in Dallas, Dr. Robert Gunby never expected to complain about his working conditions. But then he never expected that managed care would transform his life. Gunby's salary has dropped 10% in the past four years, and he's had to dip into his personal savings just to pay his staff. And while he's used to nights spent in the delivery room, he says his workweek now clocks in at nearly 100 hours--up to 20 of them, he estimates, spent haggling with insurance companies over approval for drugs and treatments...