Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read properly what the rest of the world thought of Japan. Militarists at the time preached and probably believed, for example, that China would welcome them as liberators. Today the Japan that has constitutionally renounced war is awakening to the need for greater responsibility in world affairs. The shift has been slow, however, and underwent a sharp setback during the gulf...
Gomes has seen the views of many causes shift. And he is relieved to see what he deems an increasing intolerance for the "last permissable prejudice": homophobia...
...this would sharply increase payroll taxes for the wealthiest, such a change represents a more equitable way of apportioning the burden, which now falls more heavily on lower-income workers. Removing the cap would provide an estimated $25 billion in new funds for the universal plan. Congress should then shift the entire federal Medicaid budget to the universal-health program, which would give it a generous $115 billion in its first year...
Some American consumers have felt both edges of the interest-rate sword. Detroit advertising executive Bruce Wagner recently saved about $150 a month by refinancing his mortgage at a rate just above 9%. But Wagner agonizes over the need to shift his children's college-education money out of CD accounts to get a better yield. "I don't particularly want to," he says, "but I'm going to have to find something else besides what had been a very secure and comfortable way to save." Such dilemmas seem certain to grow more acute so long as interest rates remain...
...down at an alarming rate. A hospital can be reimbursed by the government for as little as 3 percent of a patient bill, which means a loss of $194,000 on a $200,000 bill. An urban emergency room may handle more than 200 patients in a 12-hour shift. Many hospital emergency rooms have been shut down in the past several years. In Los Angeles County, a recent study showed, almost half of hospital emergency rooms have closed in recent years...