Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four more years of acting should not be a switch...
...Robert Maxwell is a whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell...
Halfway up the hill, by the Shawmut Bank (whose digital clock was still an hour off, several weeks after the daylight savings switch) he stopped to rest and smoke a cigarette, forcing me to nonchalantly wander off on my own. Sunset was coming on and the white spire of the town hall was catching a flood of orange light. Behind the building was a cemetery, rolling away in a stretch of trees and headstones three, four or five times the area covered by the Atlantic Market...
...culprit behind the country closings is the same one that has put some urban hospitals out of business: the 1983 congressional decision to switch Medicare to the so-called Diagnosis Related Groups system, which eliminated the old fee-for-service plan. Under the current rules, the Government pays set rates for designated services, no matter what the circumstances of a case. Although the Government has raised Medicare compensation 11% between 1984 and this year, payments to hospitals have not kept pace with the costs of care for elderly patients, which have risen 22% in the same period. Medicaid, the federal...
...self-validating. However knowledgeable or ignorant, focused or distracted, reflective or scatterbrained they may be individually, the voters collectively are always wise. Political pundits who have been concentrating for months on the shallowest and most mechanistic aspects of the election campaign -- tactics, commercials, "likability" and so on -- will switch gears on Election Day and begin interpreting the "message" of the election in the most grandiose philosophical terms. Reports of the candidates' strategies for appealing to various groups or regions of the country will be replaced by theories about what an undifferentiated mass called "the people" was trying to say. These...