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The Clinton plan proposed a cap on total national health-care spending. The Dole bill has a "fail-safe" mechanism designed to ensure that the plan would not add to the federal deficit. House Education and Labor proposes regional limits on how fast insurance premiums can rise. House Ways and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time on Capitol Hill | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

When nights at the Crimson Sports Grille are not fruitful, when e-mail love fails to satisfy, some undergraduates turn to that old standby: pornography.

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: Voulting Playboys | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Harvard quarterback Mike Giardi will run the standby Multi-Flex offense--which varies offensive sets and uses play fakes to confuse defenses--against a weak Yale defense that has given up an average of 189 rushing yards per game and 219.9 yards per game passing.

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Playing For Pride | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

Given the frequency with which member states are turning to the U.N. to police world conflicts, Annan hopes they will start thinking seriously about how to do it better. Boutros-Ghali's call for the creation of a standby force has mostly been ignored. If some more effective mechanism is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue-Helmet Blues | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

About half the ailing parents die before they designate anyone to take custody of their children. To improve that statistic, both Illinois and New York have enacted laws in the past year that allow parents to name a standby guardian to care for their children on a temporary basis. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Aids Strikes Parents | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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