Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potheads; I guess there are those who think of the Beasties' music this way. Most of us don't however: anyone with an interest in hip hop realizes the debt this genre owes to the Beasties. With their debut LP, the smash hit Licensed To Ill, they, along with Rick Rubin, helped introduce heavy metal and other rock influences to rap. (Go listen to the Ghetto Boyz song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" at half-speed for one of a million examples of how this has spread.) The underappreciated follow-up, Paul's Boutique (my personal favorite Beasties record...
...Rick Scott's Columbia/HCA has its own health-reform plan...
...Rick Scott remembers the first time he offered to buy HCA, the Hospital Corp. of America, based in Nashville, Tennessee. He offered $5 billion. Scott, then a 34-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, lawyer, had $125,000 in the bank. They laughed, he recalls fondly. "One guy in Dallas said, 'What are you going to do, Rick? Put it on your MasterCard...
Even as Congress mulls ways to reform the $1 trillion American health-care system, the nation's health sector, through the likes of Rick Scott, is rapidly reforming itself. Health inflation, for example, has slowed dramatically. Medical costs rose just 5.3% last year, the smallest increase in 20 years -- largely because enrollment in managed-care plans, which seek to curb wasteful treatment, is growing so quickly. More than half of all American workers are enrolled in such health plans, up from 27% in 1988. Most striking, more than a third of companies offering health benefits to their workers actually reduced...
Along with all the customers at Rick's Cafe American when the Nazis came to "Casablanca...