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...levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals...
...patients, the reforms may mean a more restricted choice of doctors, or else paying a greater portion of the bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting...
Moreno's critiques, however, steer clear of slapstick approaches and stay with harsher evaluations, with references to Dean Robert Clark as "Mein Dean" and Law School men as "dateproof to the bitter...
...meant the departure of liberals, since Clinton brings in new players on top of the old, a process Bush practiced so faithfully it became known derisively as "composting." Moreover, liberals ranging all the way from twentysomething staff members to Hillary Rodham Clinton are unlikely to let Gergen steer the President too far into conservative country. "Gergen has mounted a coup," said a former Bush official, "but there are a lot of rebels at large who are armed and dangerous...
...McArthur] was not enamored by the thought that he should [steer alumni donors to other divisions of the University], because he thought it would come out of the Business School's contributors," says Warren Alpert, a New York entrepreneur and 1947 Business School graduate who this year donated $20 million to the Medical School...