Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research and specialization in this country unlike any other," says Dr. William E. Jacott, who teaches family medicine at the University of Minnesota. The rewards of specialized care with the latest diagnostic gadgets and surgical twists were so obvious to both patients and physicians that no one could quarrel with the movement. Primary care was de-emphasized at many medical schools...
...REMEMBER THE POLICE COMing and taking him away. That was a pretty spooky deal." Bill Clinton was less than six when his drunken stepfather was arrested for firing a gun during a marital quarrel. But, he says, "I remember it like it was yesterday." That was in the little town of Hope, where Clinton was born. "The neighbors knew about it." Shortly afterward the family moved to Hot Springs, where, Clinton says, "we never had a public incident...
...year-old bargaining session known as the Uruguay Round of GATT, the 107-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is in trouble. Washington and the E.C. are locked in a quarrel over how much Europe will be allowed to subsidize its farmers and thus give them an advantage over everyone from American wheat growers to Third World farmers trying to produce cash crops for foreign markets. There are fears that unless something is done to break the stalemate, the world will slip into commercial darkness and political tension. Warns GATT's director general Arthur Dunkel: "There will be major...
...that's what everyone seems to be doing, anyway, and who am I to quarrel with multibillion-dollar monthly capital flows...
...quarrel I do. When friends call to ask which mutual fund to plunge into, I make the following speech: "It's great that you're thinking about stocks," I say, "because, over the long run, stocks will outperform safer investments. And it's great that you've decided to go the mutual-fund route, because that's almost always wiser than picking the stocks yourself. (Do yourself a favor, though," I remind them, "and choose a fund with low annual expenses and no sales fee.) But are you sure now is the time to jump in? Now, when stocks...