Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the knowledge she'd gleaned from 27 years of being Bernie's wife at that point, Betty had some extra insight into what his retirement might mean to their marriage. She's a psychotherapist who has been counseling couples for 25 years. She knew that not every couple is prepared for the growing phenomenon she and Bernie faced: the half-retired marriage...
...husband's retirement because she knew how much of his self-worth was invested in his career, and she wondered where he would direct his energies after that career ended. She also knew to prepare for the everyday problems that can catch couples off guard. "We made a point to talk about the housework issue before it became an issue," Polston says. "Bernie hadn't ever helped around the house since we got married. But now it made sense for him to take on some chores." It was agreed that Bernie would make his lunch, wash the dishes, make...
...Breaux-Frist approach, which would compel insurance companies to provide a "high-option" plan with drug benefits and then help cover the cost of that insurance for the poor and near poor. With its bipartisan cachet, the Breaux-Frist bill is likely to become the big starting point for a fiery debate, particularly since next year the Senate Finance Committee plans to take up comprehensive Medicare reform for the first time since the program was introduced in 1965. But even Breaux concedes his solution will have a difficult journey becoming law: many of his fellow Democrats will want to keep...
TIME: But didn't you hold up licensing Windows to IBM at one point to pressure them...
Between the worn-out trailers and the HUD homes on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation sits an incongruous stretch of newly built mansions. From his patrol car, Wesley Benedict, the tribal police chief, points out a red brick palazzo and a white gabled mansion. "Most of those are built with smuggling money," he says. Around the world, word has spread that if you want to come to the U.S., the easiest point of entry is this barren reservation that cuts across both sides of the New York-Canada border...