Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been puttering around most of the day and would like my attention," says Marge. For Guy's part, he's ready for his wife to retire. "We'd both really love to travel and see friends, and I can go at any time, but she can't just take a week off from school," Guy says. "I'm having an O.K. time now; my life is completely stress free. But it'll be a lot more fun when she's with...
...prepare for the everyday problems that can catch couples off guard. "We made a point to talk about the housework issue before it became an issue," Polston says. "Bernie hadn't ever helped around the house since we got married. But now it made sense for him to take on some chores." It was agreed that Bernie would make his lunch, wash the dishes, make the bed and take out the trash...
Some issues weren't so easily resolved, however. Bernie had decided to take some of his firm's clients with him when he retired, and work out of the house a couple of days a week. He set up a home office in an extra bedroom, outfitting it with a new computer. His files took up a closet that had once been filled with Betty's clothes, and his work frequently spilled out of the bedroom onto the dining-room table. But Betty and Bernie eventually worked out the space issue with a redesign of the office, adding an extra...
...plan with drug benefits and then help cover the cost of that insurance for the poor and near poor. With its bipartisan cachet, the Breaux-Frist bill is likely to become the big starting point for a fiery debate, particularly since next year the Senate Finance Committee plans to take up comprehensive Medicare reform for the first time since the program was introduced in 1965. But even Breaux concedes his solution will have a difficult journey becoming law: many of his fellow Democrats will want to keep prescription drugs alive as an issue...
Since the end of the cold war, the Pentagon has said it would need all its troops to meet its pledge to wage and win two "major theater wars" at once. But because it would take up to 90 days to move troops in Bosnia and Kosovo to a new conflict--longer than permitted under Pentagon guidelines--their commanders had no choice but to rank their units as unable to fight...