Word: spate
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...nudged into HMOs has increased 50%, to 67.5 million. And as participation rates have climbed, so have complaints, many of which sound like the horrors that would supposedly have taken place under the Clinton plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only one eye or that keep doctors from discussing expensive types of care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed care said they worry...
...taking global warming seriously and doing something about it are two very different propositions. The nations gathered in Kyoto are split into several factions, each pushing a different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each--despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences--sticking to its guns. "I'm confident that some kind of agreement will be worked out in Kyoto," says Toshiaki Tanabe, Japan's ambassador for global environmental affairs. But there is every likelihood, in fact, that the U.N.-sponsored conference will accomplish nothing substantive...
...Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique. All in all, it was a fine way to undercut a nasty spate of bad p.r.--if this decade's Darth Vader can cut loose like a heedless frat boy, he can't be all bad, right? Especially with that...
Student opinions on the effects of the drinking-policy revision--inspired by a recent spate of drinking-related deaths nationwide--varied from indifference to vehement objection...
...fallout continues. Once again, dour comments by Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan on the state of the U.S. economy have touched off a world-wide spate of panic selling, reports Money Daily. Southeast Asian markets were the most affected, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropping 4 percent and Japan's Nikkei falling nearly 250 points. The bulls were equally spooked in Europe - Germany's DAX and Britain?s FTSE were sinking slowly early Thursday. All this on the back of Greenspan expounding a very simple economic truism: higher employment means higher wages and higher prices. What on earth...