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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beware of "attained age" policies, which automatically increase in price as you get older. So-called community-rated policies may be more expensive at the outset, but they usually provide better value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicare Woes | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Average U.S. price of a gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Average price of a gallon of gas in 1973--calculated in 1998 dollars--just prior to the oil embargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process to America. Such innovation permitted him to reduce the price of rails--the product that initially drove the industry--from $160 a ton in 1875 to $17 by 1900. His steel furnished the sinews of America's burgeoning towns and factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Barons | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...sell radios, it had to have programming--music, news, sports. On July 2, 1921, he arranged the broadcast of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier prizefight (great ratings in the male demos), which was a watershed event. Within three years the radio music box, now called the Radiola (price: a hefty $75), was a success, with sales of $83.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father Of Broadcasting DAVID SARNOFF | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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