Word: shield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Circumstances that lead to social oppression seem to be presented as a simple matter of personal conspiracies. For example, one item from the Is Dis a System? Department told how Blue Cross and Blue Shield recently decided to limit coverage for radical mastectomies because more women were now requesting them. The presentation seemed to imply that the administrators of Blue Shield were consciously out to torment women...
...fact Blue Shield is a business, and although it is nonprofit, it must still compete to some extent with other health insurance plans. To remain solvent it can provide medical coverage only in those areas it can afford, or it can raise its rates and risk losing business to competing health plans. Granted, it is not clear that Blue Shield's decision to limit coverage for breast reconstruction was based solely on economics. But if that were the case, it would merely illustrate the fact that the social utility of programs like Blue Cross-Blue Shield is limited...
...pregnancy, the embryo is amazingly babylike. By the ninth week the fetus is kicking and wiggling, though it is so small-only a few inches long-that its mother cannot feel any movements. Its sex can be recognized, and at one point it seems to be trying to shield its eyes from the lights of the camera...
...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
...Post, March 19, 1976) from the curious incident on August 15, 1974 when an alleged dissident Korean from Japan tried to assassinate Park during a public rally. The bullets struck Park's wife instead. She was rushed dying to a hospital while Park, emerging from behind a bullet-proof shield, went on with his speech. Afterward there was a great anti-Japanese uproar, and, on September 9, 32 patriots lopped off fingers publicly in Seoul with meat cleavers and sent them wrapped in a Korean flag to then Japanese premier Kakuei Tanaka. Newsmen soon discovered however that those "patriots" were...