Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saenger said yesterday she does not plan to press charges against the driver, or ask him to cover her medical expenses. Although she has not spoken to the driver, Saenger said his wife, who was a passenger in the car, contacted her after the accident...
...Clinton has repeatedly spoken of raising the tax rate on wealthy Americans to 36%, and his economic advisers are now talking of a further rise to 40%. ; Moynihan is incredulous. "At that rate," he says, "all the loopholes we eliminated in the 1986 tax bill would come back like a hydraulic phenomenon...
There is, of course, a place for noise, as there is for daily lives. There is a place for roaring, for the shouting exultation of a baseball game, for hymns and spoken prayers, for orchestras and cries of pleasure. Silence, like all the best things, is best appreciated in its absence: if noise is the signature tune of the world, silence is the music of the other world, the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres. But the greatest charm of noise is when it ceases. In silence, suddenly, it seems as if all the windows...
Clinton endorses malpractice reform to curb huge litigation costs and the insurance premiums that doctors pay. He has spoken approvingly of establishing a set of physician practice standards, or generally accepted rules on what responsible doctors should do for a patient in a given circumstance. This reform, endorsed by many medical research centers and academics, would free physicians from the expensive practice of "defensive medicine," in which they order unnecessary tests and perform unneeded procedures to give themselves extra protection from malpractice suits. Defensive medicine may cost Americans as much as $100 billion a year. During the campaign, Clinton promised...
...however, that Bush is trying to put pressure on Clinton in a more subtle manner. Though Clinton has often pledged to follow an active foreign policy, he has also spoken of the necessity to avoid spending all his time on international affairs and vowed "a laser beam" focus on the U.S. economy. Bush may be trying to signal his successor -- and the American people -- that foreign policy cannot be treated as an unwelcome distraction, that the U.S. must play a leadership role in making the world a safer place; no other country can. "The new world could, in time...