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Thirty-five million people are now enrolled in HMOs -- nearly four times as many as in 1980 -- despite misbegotten government policies that enrich doctors and reward patients for staying out of them. But HMOs suffer from an image problem. They are thought of as pseudosocialist bargain medicine. HMOs need to be "repositioned," as they say in the advertising game. They need a new image as supercapitalist medicine...
What is going on here? For millions of retirees, a pension, along with the requisite gold watch, is a tacit reward for a lifetime of company loyalty, a bedrock foundation against poverty in old age. Suddenly, though, employees and retirees of some of America's largest corporations fear that the pensions they were counting on may not be there when they need them. If Executive Life's failure is not frightening enough for Americans, some 50 large companies, including LTV, Chrysler, Bethlehem Steel and Uniroyal Goodrich, have seriously underfunded their pension plans and jeopardized the security of their own retirees...
...villagers know this but are waiting for the government to start its food-for-work program, in which the state will reward the workers with rice for rebuilding the embankment. Why not go ahead on their...
...entrap the elusive It and squeeze out some small confession: This is how the enzyme works, or the protein folds, or the gene makes known its message. But always, and no matter what, you let It do the talking. And when It spoke, which wasn't often, your reward, as one of my professors used to say, was "to wake up screaming in the night" -- at the cunning of Its logic and the elegance of Its design...
President F.W. de Klerk's policy of dismantling apartheid has reaped its biggest foreign policy reward to date. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, the 12-nation European Community voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...