Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first to employee benefits, Medicare or Medicaid. But according to estimates announced last week by the VA and the Department of Health and Human Services, as many as 172,000 veterans could lose their Medicaid coverage in 2002. At the same time, increasing premiums and copayments for Medicare could spur an additional 400,000 veterans to head to VA medical centers. The numbers are debatable, but the basic dynamic is not: all three systems of medical coverage are cycling down together...
Though Republicans aren't big fans of redistributive taxation, they are big fans of cutting overall taxation. To the extent that there is a generic Republican response to stagnant wages, this is it: spur growth by slashing stifling taxes...
...effort to spur student interest, the Crimson has put together a package of prizes and give-always. The first 60 people through the doors will receive a free T-shirt, while all students will automatically be entered into a series of raffles over the course of the night. Raffle prizes range from dinner for two in Harvard Square to in-line skates...
...been a boon and a blessing to America's myriad cultural outlets. It is easy to think of scores, and possible to find hundreds, of museum exhibitions, dance and drama projects, concerts and arts- education programs of real cultural value that would not have had private underwriting without the spur of public money. Corporations need reassurance and are reluctant to disgorge without...
...listening. "The population is getting smarter and better educated in the use of drugs," says Dr. Michael Weintraub, head of the FDA office that approves over-the-counter drugs. "That's a factor in allowing us to approve some of these switches." It may also spur competition and prolong the financial health of pharmaceutical companies...