Word: thursdays
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...final lines are being drawn in America's great HMO debate ? and it looks as if the issue will mostly be settled at the ballot box. The Senate on Thursday slogged through a second day of grueling partisan combat, eventually passing a more limited Republican version of a Patients' Bill of Rights. Amendment by amendment, the GOP majority struck down every Democratic attempt to give broader access to specialists and emergency-room care to the broadest possible number of insured patients, some 161 million persons. In nearly every case, Republicans came back to pass similar, but more limited, measures that...
...looks like George Mitchell should start packing his bags. The former U.S. senator from Maine, who engineered last year's Good Friday accord aimed at bringing peace in Northern Ireland, saw the agreement in tatters on Thursday when Protestant loyalists pulled up at the last hurdle. Britain on Thursday formally put the peace process under review after David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party refused to take its seats at the head of the new Northern Ireland Assembly created by the agreement. The Unionists rejected London's plan allowing the Republican Sinn Fein to take their seats in the assembly before...
...drawing board. Prime Minister Blair and Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahearn will meet next week to ponder a way forward in a peace process that crashed because neither side could muster the trust to take the necessary political risks. The only smiles in Northern Ireland Thursday will be on the faces of the hard men of all stripes who prefer to let their weapons do the negotiating...
...take the rest of the summer off," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, after Thursday?s CPI number confirmed the good news: Inflation is definitely back in the grave. The overall Consumer Price Index was unchanged last month, and the core rate ? which excluded volatile energy prices ?- increased a mere 0.1 percent. Both numbers came in under expectations, yet another assurance that the Fed has absolutely no need to throttle back on the money supply when it meets in August. "In fact, it doesn?t even need to meet," jokes Baumohl. "They don?t even have to talk...
Medical researchers believe they may have found a powerful predictor of heart disease, the health problem with the highest mortality rate in the nation. A study of 5,621 men and women over 65 published in Thursday?s New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the presence of a benign condition known as aortic valve sclerosis may be associated with a 50 percent higher risk of death from heart disease. The finding is significant because the condition, a hardening or thickening of a tiny heart valve, ?is incredibly common among the elderly,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. About...