Word: patchworked
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...people who suffer because of inadequate distribution of medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...many reforms as we think we can pass through the Congress. People are becoming more concerned. As more people enjoy higher incomes and thus pay more taxes, they become more concerned about how they are treated in relation to other people under the law." He calls the present code "patchwork," but he foresees no basic rewrite this year. "We are only looking at some 17 or 18 specific areas which give different treatment of income from that which is normally applied." Among them: the oil-depletion allowance, tax-free interest on municipal bonds, and capital-gains rates that are lower...
...center of the plan: a 300-seat theatre, stocked with lots of multimedia gadgets. In an area where small groups like The Proposition and the Caravan Theatre operate in garages or church basements, and where even resident professional companies like the Charles Playhouse are forced into cramped, patchwork constructions, The Light Company's spacious, well equipped auditorium is an unique luxury. All Leven needed was a hit show and he would be well on his way to filling in the remaining parts of his building...
...only does the Supreme Court constantly reinterpret it; Congress has also approved 25 amendments. Santa Barbara's fellows argue that none of this will do. The amending process is so slow (deliberately so), they note, that only ten amendments have occurred in this century, most of them minimal patchwork jobs. Recalls Fellow of the Center W. H. Ferry: "As we investigated the new institutions of American life and saw the President being forced again and again to operate on his emergency powers, we kept being driven back to a consideration of the document itself...
...everything." His playing became "freer," he says. "I mean free in the sense that you are absolutely at one with yourself, and whatever you do is faithful to a single intuitive interpretation, whereas at earlier stages we are all so influenced by different interpreters that our playing is a patchwork...