Word: shields
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insurers will react to all this is unclear. US Healthcare (now merged with Aetna) and some Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans helped bankroll three of the recent studies, an act of good corporate citizenship that seemed to signal a willingness to keep paying for transplant treatments in breast-cancer cases. A doctor working with Kaiser-Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, offers more direct reassurance. "It will be up to the doctor and the patient," predicts oncologist Louis Fehrenbacher...
There may also be a more cynical motivation behind all this news management: it allows the Pentagon and NATO to shield potentially embarrassing details about the war. Despite video footage showing pinpoint allied missile attacks, the military acknowledges that only a small percentage of NATO planes have dropped ordnance on their targets so far. And though the Pentagon declined to say last week what portion of the total NATO sorties had been flown by U.S. aircraft, most military observers believe Americans are doing as much as 80% of the dirty work...
...Christians, nationalists and Communists, secessionist provinces and one irate band of paramilitary horsemen." Blaming the U.S. and the West as being unprepared to deal with the effects of the Cold War, Fritz writes that "The West got the world it had demanded, and now it was scrambling to shield itself from it." The Western demand for open markets in the world obviously did not include open movement of populations...
...Duval was the pro at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., and the golf course became David's refuge. It would not shield him then, nor could it later, when his parents divorced, finally, in 1996. But things have since improved. Duval has reconciled with his father, while his mother has fought her way back from depression. Duval's longtime girlfriend, Julie McArthur, has said it can't be coincidental that David's breakthrough in golf arrived as he and his family achieved a certain stasis...
Currier: A long-sleeved blue T with "Currier" on the sleeve and the House shield on the chest...