Word: subject
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...seniors lobby is understandably skeptical on this point. Once the government's guarantee is defined as a certain amount of money rather than a certain set of benefits, that amount becomes subject to adjustment. Even if the payment starts off fully adequate, it can be allowed to drift down in value as health costs escalate...
...favor blacks in ways it is not O.K. to favor whites. To be sure, this is a troubling and potentially perilous conclusion. It does not provide carte blanche for all forms of reverse discrimination. But it is the beginning of any honest debate on the subject...
...turn into the gun-obsessed loner and right-wing drifter described in most reports of his activities between his time in Army service and the Oklahoma bombing? Even if his trial explores that subject, it is a long way off. In a preview of his strategy, lawyer Jones makes it clear he will dispute the government on every point--and take his time doing it. "The bottom line of our defense," he says, "is this: we will concede nothing...
...Mizrahi is the subject of Unzipped, one of the smartest and most entertaining documentaries to come along in years. Unzipped is everything that Robert Altman's fashion fizzle, Ready to Wear, should have been: funny, succinct and modestly instructive about a fairly recondite business...
Political gaffes--including the misspelling of the word potato by former vice president Dan Quayle--were the subject of a discussion with Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby yesterday at the Institute of Politics...