Word: shifts
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...richest nations on earth, millions go broke because they get sick. The failure to include income-related caps on medical spending is precisely why liberals view the right's fetish for high-deductible, consumer-directed health plans as nefarious, since these plans are sure to shift costs to unlucky sick folks who can't afford them. But if a Republican insists that such plans limit annual medical expenses to some fair portion of income, liberals should be willing to find common ground. Romney didn't do this in Massachusetts--a failing. But Giuliani actually boasts of an approach certain...
...third reason for the shift is that China desperately wants the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to go smoothly. That means everyone must come and the hosts must be in control. Threats of boycotts or demonstrations worry China enough to risk a little interference in Sudan. It is all discreetly handled, of course, but China does appear to have played a significant part in getting the Sudanese to accept the U.N.-led force...
...room syndrome," says a Western banker who advises the State Investment Co. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...
...them may be lying in hospitals, unconscious and unidentified, plenty of cars are still submerged in the Mississippi River. Anyone trapped inside - and there are such people - is no longer alive. So recovery crews are picking their way carefully around the twisted steel and broken concrete that could shift without warning in the muddy current...
...Gaddafi rejects these accusations, insisting that negotiations over what he stresses was "the purely legal issue" of the Bulgarian case resulted from incessant Western pressure to "interfere and shift a legal issue to a political" arena. Still, he acknowledges that resolution of the issue opens the way for Libya gains on the diplomatic and business fronts. Meantime, Gaddafi says he'll continue working on liberalizing and democratizing the dictatorship built by his father since 1969 - a notion scoffed at by human rights organizations. Responding to doubts that the regime could reform to the point of releasing its iron grip...