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...price may have been steep, but a quarter of a million dollars has bought a temporary peace in the controversy over the athletic department's treatment of women athletes...
...reassure consumers to know that community rating is an old idea whose time has come around again. At the moment, health-insurance premiums vary wildly. The healthiest and the youngest customers enjoy the lowest costs, while those most in need of care are socked with steep and often unaffordable costs. Clinton's plan would equalize premiums so that no one is priced out of insurance by a sudden health problem or the loss of a job. Most legislators agree that some leveling of premiums is required, but Republicans and some conservative Democrats are shifting into stronger opposition to what they...
...early 30s, in the pillbox hat, or the bloody pink suit, or the black veil, became one of the urdivinities of the paleotelevision age. By the time she died, she was still arguably the most famous woman on earth. Who else -- Madonna? Princess Di? (The falloff in quality is steep...
...disjuncture between law and practice may be extreme in France, but it is not unique. Around the world, legislators have followed the U.S. lead in trying to stub out tobacco by restricting smoking areas, banning or limiting cigarette ads, imposing steep taxes and issuing ominous health warnings. But with a few notable exceptions, such as in Singapore and Australia, cultural attitudes and habits have largely quashed such efforts. Foreigners, who seem only too eager to inhale most aspects of American culture, regard the U.S. obsession with smoking as overwrought. "The whole thing," sniffs German teacher Waltraud Gruneisl, "borders on mass...
...have seen a steep drop in the standards of the profession," Oliphant said. "Writing about things like political strategy has today crowded the serious substantive White House journalism out of journalism...