Word: splits
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...trust fund covers only half of Medicare: hospitalization insurance, known as Part A. It is financed by a payroll tax-currently 2.9%, split equally between employee and employer. Part B, for doctor bills, is voluntary, but such a good deal that nearly everyone eligible signs up. Beneficiaries pay a premium--currently $46.10 a month--but this covers only 29% of the cost. The rest comes from general funds. In all, Medicare covers 37 million Americans (33 million senior citizens and 4 million disabled people) at a projected cost this year of $181 billion...
...England's highest selling newspapers, announced that Presley, incensed over a jaunt Jackson took to Europe with two young boys, had called it quits. Both Presley and Jackson, who recently demonstrated their obviously genuine affection for each other in one of Jackson's music videos, denied they'd split (and the boys' father said Jackson was just an old family friend). But that didn't stop the New York tabloids from jumping all over the story. Jackson needs all the wifely support he can get at the moment. On top of trying to rescue a tanking album, he's suing...
...nasty feud between model Anna Nicole Smith and E. Pierce Marshall, her stepson,was narrowly averted when both parties agreed that the ashes of Smith's dead multimillionaire husband should be split between them. "I'm at peace with what happened," she said. Now there's just the teensy matter of the money. epic records...
Reaction to Croatia's offensive initially split the allies. France and Britain condemned the assault, while the U.S. and Germany all but applauded it. By last week, however, each of the Western powers appeared to understand that an opportunity was at hand, and seemed eager to ensure that it not be squandered. With these forces at work, Clinton sent National Security Advisor Anthony Lake to London, Paris and Bonn (Spain, Italy and Russia were later added to the itinerary) with the new plan in his briefcase. Lake was accompanied by Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff...
...Bosnia that they now control; the remaining 30% would be reserved for a Muslim government. This would be a big change: the current plan endorsed by the "Contact Group"--the U.S., France, Britain, Germany and Russia--and accepted by the Muslims calls for a 51%-49% split in the Muslims' favor. "We're selling out to the battlefield reality," the Pentagon official conceded. However, sources at the State Department insist that the plan is more generous to the Muslims and is based on the Contact Group's proposals, although details of the map will be different...