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...companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills and biting into state budgets and company profits...
Riordan, 63, is the city's first new mayor in 20 years, succeeding the Democratic fixture, Tom Bradley, who is retiring after five terms. Riordan represents a strong turn toward the moderate Republican right, the result of a backlash against last year's traumatic riots and the city's relentless crime. He played the law-and-order angle to the hilt, arguing that jobs too depend on safe streets because "no business wants to come into a war zone...
Then he scares you witless. Here come a nosy tyrannosaur and a fan-faced, bilious dilophosaur. Nastiest of all are the velociraptors, smart, relentless punks in packs -- Saurz N the Hood. They have a special appetite for kids, just like the great white shark in the movie that made Spielberg's rep. Now it has some worthy successors: primeval creatures with personality and a lot of bite. Jurassic Park is the true Jaws...
...Cambodian solution," as a senior U.N. official put it, in which an uneasy coalition is formed under the mercurial Prince Sihanouk. The Khmer Rouge would not be invited to participate in the new government, but neither would the government wage war on the guerrillas. Pol Pot's relentless hold on Cambodia, alas, is likely to continue...
...means, a trade-policy "activist" might reply, but why should pressuring Japan to open its markets effectively close America's? The question is--one hates to say it--naive and unrealistic. The domestic pressure for protection is relentless. To keep it in check, governments need to be shrewd. They need to deny the enemy opportunities and arguments. The Clinton administration seems ready to supply both...