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...injuries or with high medical expenses the chance to sue for any amount they think they can get. The lower the limit for "high" expenses, the less savings to consumers in premium reductions. Under an extremely low $100 cutoff system being considered in New Jersey, for example, consumers would pocket only an average of 10% on premiums for bodily injury insurance v. 42.6% in Massachusetts, where the minimum suit possible on wage and medical losses must be for more than $2,000. Since the price of collision coverage and other forms of auto insurance continues to climb ceaselessly, moreover...
Fats may have had a point. For most of the 20 players in this year's World Championship of Pocket Billiards-a black-tie name for straight pool-seemed uncomfortable in their cummerbunds. There was something similarly uneasy about the championship setting; three neon-lit tables amid the faded splendor of the Great Lodge Hall in the Elks Building of downtown Los Angeles...
...POCKET MONEY...
...casual viewer will be able to deduce that this film is a comedy only by sitting through the long pauses between lines, watching the actors play funny-face. Pocket Money is full of an infuriatingly smug cuteness that adds up to drastically short change for the price of a ticket...
...transform the one-ring Felt Forum into a rally hall of what kind I was not sure. The doubt was not clarified when Eugene McCarthy strode professionally up on the stage. McCarthy wore a dark three piece suit. A ragged book of some kind was shoved in his left pocket. He looked and evidently felt a little out of place. It was hard to see him in place anywhere, but this forum of poetry and politics seemed as good a place as any, a place both beneath and above him. He read a war poem of his own making...