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...Medicare plan would encourage price competition between managed-care providers--it's not the one-size-fits-all program Bush claims--Gore dodges the toughest entitlement questions: when and by how much to trim benefits, increase premiums or raise the eligibility age for future retirees in order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing makes it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser...
...page, single-spaced addendum to his application that cataloged, as one admissions officer exasperatedly termed it, "every activity he's ever participated in." With the "spread too thin" designation on his voting sheet, even his perfect 800 score on the verbal half of the SAT wasn't enough to stave off rejection...
...stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish out reconstruction aid if Kostunica takes office. But Washington in particular is keeping its distance to stave off charges of interfering to get rid of Milosevic. "Ultimately," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "the people themselves have...
...truckload comports perfectly with the neighborhood's taste for surreal gestures, for mythomania. The peace process is dying because nothing rational can survive in this physics of rage. Perhaps the peace process has merely been a distraction, anyway, like Sheherazade's stories spun night after night to stave off inevitable execution...
...Medicare plan would encourage price competition between managed-care providers - it's not the one-size-fits-all program Bush claims - Gore dodges the toughest entitlement questions: when and by how much to trim benefits, increase premiums or raise the eligibility age for future retirees in order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing made it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser...