Word: treating
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...Washington, and you'll find an Administration that loves the working class -- as a concept anyway. George Bush favors pork cracklings, and was probably munching on that well-known proletarian treat as he nixed the bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders -- a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like...
...Because I am extremely concerned about what is happening to the American family. Those of us in the sane center are always being clobbered by both the left and the right. We think of ourselves as a nation that cherishes its children, but, in fact, America treats its children like excess baggage. In all other countries, childbirth is seen as an event that is vitally important to the life and future of the nation. But in the U.S. we treat child rearing as some kind of expensive private hobby...
...even if that is not always true. At least we put the children first. These days we treat divorce as just another personal choice. Birth control has made it possible to choose when to have children, and liberalized divorce laws have made it easy to abandon them. Parents now spend 40% less time with their children than they did about 15 years...
Brady is looking at his breakthrough year. He wrote two songs on Raitt's brand new Luck of the Draw, including the title track; and she returns the favor by singing lead and background on the title track from Brady's own Trick or Treat (Fontana/Mercury), which may well be the prize work in this very fine bunch. Brady's solo career as a songwriter began more than a decade ago; before that he had been known as a reinterpreter of traditional Irish music. After his fourth solo record, in 1988, followed the usual pattern -- critical accolades, cult status, stubbornly...
...issue even closer to most doctor's hearts -- and pocketbooks -- is the Medicare fee schedule proposed in late May. The Administration was directed by Congress to overhaul the fees physicians are paid to treat the 34 million elderly and disabled patients eligible for Medicare. The idea was to shift some payments from high-paid specialists to lower-paid general practitioners. But the new Administration rules went even further, cutting future Medicare payments by $3 billion and lowering reimbursements to some groups -- notably internists -- that Congress had intended to help. To make matters worse, the government issued new rules last week...