Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth is, Americans are probably as healthy today as they ever were, and are paying less for their health coverage. Thanks at least in part to managed care, vaccination rates are up, premature births are down, more women are getting mammograms than ever before and costs have fallen dramatically. Managed care saved between $150 billion and $250 billion last year alone out of total U.S. health-care spending of $1 trillion. If things are really as bad as Hollywood and Washington say, the plan administrators wonder, why do more than three-quarters of their members say they are satisfied with...
...Japanese have announced all these plans, is their economy still dead in the water? The truth is that the sheer depth of Japan's crisis is beyond a simple menu of decisive action. Although some Tokyo policymakers may recognize that, much of the country is in denial. That's understandable, since the Japanese still enjoy one of the world's highest per-capita incomes. Moreover, this is an economy that since the 1980s has been heralded as a global model of success. This is the very system that allowed Japan to climb to greatness out of the ruins of World...
Angela and Patrick Beyers have been running from the truth for years. It was back in 1993 that they discovered the first crumbling floorboard in their house in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. They found the second a short while later. "Of course we knew," says Angela. "But we didn't talk about it. We just kind of pretended it wasn't happening...
...months ago the truth finally became impossible to ignore. A tiny mound of dried mud appeared on the bathroom ceiling; when Patrick scraped it aside and peered into the quarter-size hole underneath, he saw them--pale white termites, hundreds of them, scurrying through the dank darkness above. "I freaked out," he says. "I grabbed a can of Raid and blasted it into the hole"--about as effective as using a water pistol on a herd of rampaging elephants...
Hart says the hard truth is that even before Garcia's death, the Dead needed a change, having played more than 2,300 shows over 30 years. "It burns you out when you play the same repertoire, even though it's vast," says Hart. "The music got old. Now we've gone back to it--and it's fresh all over again...