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...spur of the moment kind of thing. It had a prank-like feel to it," the first-year said. "We made a mistake. We didn't think the matter [through] and acted impulsively...
...course, these problems are merely symptomatic of the larger problem of these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated...
...prospect of the President's arrival in Belfast last week was itself a spur toward peace. Clinton's visit helped "concentrate the mind," in the words of British Prime Minister John Major, and thereby sparked a sudden agreement that gave the peace process renewed momentum...
...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...