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What the votes seemed to portend is that no bill with an employer mandate -- regarded by the White House as absolutely essential -- can get more than about 40 votes in the Senate. In fact, the only proposal thus far even approaching that mark is a Republican measure, unveiled last week by minority leader Bob Dole and backed by 39 of the Senate's 44 G.O.P. members. It is a minimalist bill, forcing insurers to cover some people they now reject and providing $100 billion in subsidies over five years to those too poor to afford the premiums -- and that...
These kinds of figures don't portend well fortransfer applicants...
...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...turn himself in to Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could well portend a new narco era dominated by -- who else? -- Pepes...
...world drawn by the strange magnetism of urban life. For centuries the progress of civilization has been defined by the inexorable growth of cities. Now the world is about to pass a milestone: more people will live in urban areas than in the countryside. Does the growth of megacities portend an apocalypse of global epidemics and pollution? Or will the remarkable stirrings of self- reliance that can be found in some of them point the way to their salvation...