Word: treated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors discovered the baby had a hole in her heart. Chances were good that Cassie would eventually need surgery to fix the defect if it didn't close on its own. But Fischer, who thought her previous insurance was inadequate, had trouble finding a managed-care plan that would treat her daughter's "pre-existing condition." So she was pleased to discover a local HMO that would, her insurance agent assured her, cover all her child's pre-existing conditions, including the heart problem. But two months later, when doctors determined that Cassie did indeed need surgery, the HMO announced...
...though. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer and the screenwriters treat the original tale like a bottle of Perrier left too long uncapped; the effervescence evaporates. Fine actors (Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne) get swallowed whole, and the child stars are, shall we say, not swathed in charm. Madeline does finally face up to her orphanhood (a touching little scene), but by then the film is a lost cause, and Bemelmans' Madeline a lost soul...
...lived in college, minus the homework. They live in shared, cramped rooms with college friends, even sometimes with their actual college roommates, lit by rather familiar-looking halogen lamps and decorated with posters, not pictures, on the walls. A handful know how to cook, but those who can cook treat it almost like a hobby, not a daily task. The rest survive on large quantities of frozen food, spaghetti and Ramen Noodles. Some of them have not even bothered to buy beds, sleeping instead on our decade's great symbol of student life, the futon. Others watch "Ally McBeal...
...does not have any financial incentive tomake sure manufactures treat their workersdecently, Siegal said. The company's decision isstrictly moral, he said...
...think the solution would be easy: treat all taxpayers as though they were single. But this is the tax code. Nothing is simple. That treatment would remove a so-called marriage bonus now enjoyed by 25 million "dominant earners." A single person making $60,000 pays about $11,599 to the IRS. But if that person marries, and the spouse stays home with the kids, the tax bite drops about...