Word: progressives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that suffering from this condition is inevitable or without consequence. It took me years to realize that even if something wasn’t fatal, it could still be a far cry from innocuous. The real cost of disordered eating isn’t the fact that it can progress into a full-fledged eating disorder but the immense mental space and psychic energy wasted on obsessing about food. We’re anal about enough things in life. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one less thing to be neurotic about?On a national level, there?...
...Human Services and the Administration's health-care czar after revelations of his failure to pay $128,000 in taxes. At least three experts involved in the talks say the House is so far behind, they will have to run to catch up to the Senate. The Senate's progress is largely due to Kennedy's "incredible ability and strength," says Billy Tauzin, CEO and president of PhRMA, and a former Congressman from Louisiana. "He's anxious to make this a great legacy." (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...America (PhRMA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Most participants declined to comment directly on the talks, saying they were sworn to secrecy by Kennedy and risked expulsion from the meetings by talking on the record - though a few were willing to speak anonymously about some of the progress that has been made. Most were eager to praise the new momentum Obama has breathed into the talks this week, including the breakout session on health in his fiscal-responsibility summit on Monday, the underlining of his commitment to health-care reform in his address to the joint session of Congress...
Senator Chris Dodd, who often sits in on the meetings in case Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, can't participate, has said he expects to see legislation introduced by Memorial Day. Kennedy monitors the progress by telephone from home. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who has called health-care reform his top priority this year and is working hand-in-hand with Kennedy - Baucus' staff has often been in the room when stimulus negotiations allowed them the time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through...
...dire as their situation has been, the brokers of the African Banking Corp. and their peers are hoping better times are just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply...