Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women are as likely to have drive-by mastectomies in fee-for-service plans as in HMOs. Moreover, HMOs tend to give women more mammograms and clinical breast exams; such early-detection methods can help avoid the need for surgery altogether. The upshot: new safeguards that both political parties seek won't change much in the real world. But that doesn't mean such body-part legislation is harmless. "Once Congress starts mandating benefit by benefit," laments Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, "they won't have time to do anything else...
Well not really. In truth, those lines come from a two-year old Time Magazine article, invoked recently by public-policy advocate Ted Halstead. The article and Halstead both seek to alter that common image branded upon those born between 1965 to 1978, Generation X. Enough to make anyone schizophrenic, Generation Xers first had to face their parents' scorn as lazy, slothful, ungrateful children, and more recently are stereotyped as innovative go-getters, technology mavens and upstart venture capitalists. Yet for the Glasgow-based ensemble, who are garnering quite a following on both sides of the Atlantic, the duality almost...
...everything crazy that a lot of people do can be called a trend; it may simply be a crazy thing that a lot of people do. But it's worth noticing when an increasing number of youngish folks, more than 400 worldwide, seek to get their kicks from jumping off bridges and roofs. If this is how they behave in flush times, imagine what they would do in a depression...
...several suits filed against the industry by cities, including Chicago, that charge a glut of guns supplied to the suburbs has fueled an illegal market in cities, and New Orleans, which claims safety devices on guns are inadequate. N.A.A.C.P. president KWEISI MFUME told TIME that the organization will seek not financial damages but injunctions ordering the industry to make several changes in its distribution and marketing practices. Among them: improved monitoring of distributors and retailers to better ensure handguns don't wind up in criminals' hands, and firmer restrictions against selling more than one gun to an individual. "The proliferation...
...SCRATCH While young people ages 11 to 21 compose 15% of the U.S. population, they make up only 9% of those who visit doctors, the journal Pediatrics reported last week. The reason is not so much good health or poverty, but rather that young people consider it "uncool" to seek medical attention. Yearly checkups are essential so physicians can find and treat chronic conditions. And since the teen suicide rate has more than doubled in the past 20 years, an appointment also gives doctors a chance to screen for depression...