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...those without insurance often end up in its arms--after care costs have gutted their savings. Clinton's plan will spend $10 million to warn Medicare recipients to prepare--but prepare how? A bare-bones policy can cost a 65-year-old $2,000 a year; by 75, the premium could reach $7,000 a year...
Animation was as well a form that placed a premium on technical problem solving, which was absorbing but not emotionally demanding. Best of all, an animated cartoon constituted a little world all its own--something that, unlike life, a man could utterly control. "If he didn't like an actor, he could just tear him up," an envious Alfred Hitchcock would later remark...
...delve into some relatively small individual stocks. About two dozen trade publicly. I suggest at least one from each of three categories. That provides some modest diversification. You will also have a better chance of seeing a big drug or supermarket firm buy out your company at a premium. Here are the companies that Wall Street analysts are most bullish...
...sexual advance toward her in 1991. She then dropped her demand for an apology, a key reason why earlier settlement talks had foundered. Last Friday, after negotiations complicated by a million-dollar sweetener from eccentric New York millionaire Abe Hirschfeld, Jones settled the case for $850,000--a tidy premium over the $700,000 she sought when she brought...
...intensely competitive market for business- and first-class flyers, Swissair for the past year had pampered such customers with premium video and gambling screens at their seats, touting "an unprecedented degree of freedom and choice." But for the passengers of Flight 111, that in-seat entertainment center may have been a deadly luxury. Last week Swissair announced it was shutting down the system on its 18 jumbo jets after Canadian investigators dredged up evidence of suspicious heat damage near the unit on the Geneva-bound MD-11 that crashed off the Nova Scotia coast Sept. 2, killing all 229 people...