Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frugality. The headliner, a plan for prescription-drug coverage, would cost $118 billion over the next 10 years. But Clinton wants to add some copayments, nudge healthier people into cost-effective HMOs and increase competition among hospital-equipment contractors -? saving, by White House estimates, $44 billion over that same period. The less glamorous, below-the-fold story has the President dedicating $794 billion to Medicare over the next 15 years, a move that should extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund from...
...proposed bill would encourage mediation and give companies a 90-day period to fix a computer glitch before a plaintiff could file suit. There would be a punitive-damages cap for small businesses, and companies would be held liable only for the portion of damage they cause. ?Both sides would get something,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Industry would get some protections, but, he says ?the bill would still leave a lot of room for people to go to court.? Some key Democrats, however, want the President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible...
...says, "the market is roughly at fair value. Stocks are priced about where we think they should be. So I think we have moved from an abnormal period of wonderful returns into a normal period of good returns." Amplifying the thought, Farrell sees the beginning of "a rifle-shot stock- picking environment" in which stock performance varies widely not just by industry group but also among companies in the same industry, based on their individual performances and prospects...
BRAIN STRAIN Feel like you can't think straight when you're stressed out? You're probably right. Researchers who injected volunteers with cortisol--a hormone secreted during stress--report that those who received the highest doses for the longest period (four days) had the most trouble recalling a story they had just been told. There is a bright spot: a week after the hormone injections stopped, memory was completely restored...
...that translates into a politics of bounty, the priorities of which the President wants to be the first to define. The new money, he said, would first be used to save Social Security by permitting Social Security taxes to be allocated "for Social Security, period," rather than being needed to help balance the budget. The surplus, said the President, would next be used to strengthen Medicare and to fund his prescription drug benefit plan, details of which leaked out over the weekend before the official announcement on Tuesday. And lastly -- in a signal to both Republicans and Democrats to come...