Word: seconded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seek to influence politicians [NATION, Nov. 1], there is another problem with campaign funds. They are used mostly to purchase TV advertising. A mature and leading democracy like America should vote on the basis of reasoned argument, not because of cynical, low-minded commercials. Can you imagine 30-second spots as a replacement for the Federalist papers? Televised political ads are sold to our nation the same way as soap for dirty laundry. Like tobacco smoking, gambling and other expensive, unhealthy addictions, political TV ads should be taxed. At least we could put those dollars into something productive. STAN ROSENBERG...
...last week the HMO world produced a surprising decision that could delay or derail that bill in Congress. United HealthCare, the nation's second largest managed-care company, pulled the plug on precertification. The company, which is based in Minneapolis, Minn., and covers 14.5 million Americans, is betting the move will improve the quality of care and its bottom line, and maybe even help convince Congress that the HMOs can heal themselves. Nearly everyone applauded the decision, but practicing physicians were cheering loudest. Says cardiologist George Rodgers, in United's Austin, Texas, pilot program: "It's just made my work...
...Reform Party nominee --Lou Bega's next single --Kathie Lee Gifford's Christmas special --Our neighbor's Y2K bunker --The Ask Jeeves Thanksgiving Day Parade float --Michael Jackson playing Edgar Allan Poe in a movie --Bill Gates' appeal --Y2K: The Movie --Willennium, the Will Smith album --Kurt Warner's second half --The recession --The presidential-campaign debates --The final episode of Shasta McNasty --Howard Stern dating --NHL Minnesota expansion team, the Wild --The debut of the trampolining competition at the Olympics --Bulgarian air-traffic controllers...
...cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, put me in touch with Dr. Todd Rosengart, then leader of a team at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City that performs both laser and gene therapy. Rosengart enrolled me among 10 heart patients who would be his second round of, er, guinea pigs for the gene-therapy procedure...
...knows the kids believes they are angels. Two of them have been in trouble with the law, several are chronic truants, and two are so-called third-year freshmen. A lot of people in Decatur are putting themselves on the line because they think these young men deserve a second chance. If it comes, they had better make the most of it by studying hard and straightening out their lives. That's the only way to give real meaning to Decatur's war of words...