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MEDICINE: How Do You Spell Relief...
...running mate at the 1988 convention. Quayle was too callow, some said. Too dumb, others suggested. Some experts estimate that his presence on the ticket in 1988 cost Bush as many as 3 percentage points in the popular vote. Since then, a series of flaps -- the great "potatoe" spelling bee, the anatomically correct doll that Quayle brought back from an official trip to Chile, the Murphy Brown "family values" dispute and a host of misstatements and misspoken lines -- only added to the popular view that Quayle was not ready for prime time. "Gore has written a book," says the Democrat...
Here's the choice. Come Dec. 31, 1999, you can sit around harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand...
That could spell trouble for the President, whose credibility on the issue is not high. When asked whether they felt Bush lied when he said he would be the "environmental President," 60% said yes. The figures were larger among baby boomers (62%) and independents (63%). Even among Republicans, 40% of those polled said he lied about his intentions. Ironically, the more Bush hammers at the jobs-vs.-environment issue, the more he seems to convince voters that he never meant to carry out his earlier promise...
Ironically, after the claims are paid, Andrew and the year's other disasters could eventually spell relief for the remaining healthy insurers. Before the storms hit, the industry had been embroiled in a long and painful price war. Since 1987, property-casualty premiums paid by households and businesses have dropped an average of 40%. The intense discounting, and the sluggish profits that went with it, has touched off an industrywide shake-out. State Farm, the nation's largest property-casualty insurer, has racked up underwriting losses of $7.2 billion in the past four years, due largely to price competition...