Word: unioned
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...light of all this, a sweltering public must have been convinced at last that it's time to do something to cool off the overheated planet, right? Wrong. Even as the temperature was climbing, a new survey by the American Geophysical Union found that Americans are less concerned than ever about combatting global warming. "The more we talk about warming," says the study's director, John Immerwahr, "the [more the] public's concern goes down...
...Germany, Russian President Boris Yeltsin handed President Clinton what could be a new treasure trove of information (or perhaps just false gold): A declassified Russian dossier concerning the 1963 assassination of JFK. The documents are in Russian and apparently concern Lee Harvey Oswald?s travels to the Soviet Union as well as the Soviet government?s reaction to the killing. Kennedy enthusiasts hope the information will yield new insights about Oswald?s life in Minsk in the early 1960s and any possible ties he may have had with Soviet authorities...
...assess, and will thus help maintain the Kennedy assassination industry as a going concern. But an intriguing question is whether Yeltsin?s gift also represents a hidden Russian domestic agenda. "Yeltsin may have done this to score points against one or another of his enemies from the former Soviet Union," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The Russian press has reported in the past that Russian intelligence opposed the release of the JFK files, for fear the documents might reveal too much about itself. For the moment, the most that can be said with certainty about the gift...
...have problems with HMOs gotten? Bad enough for doctors, at least, to start thinking about the unthinkable: forming a union. The idea of taking a cue from blue-collar-labor history is one of the hottest topics at this week?s convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago. Many doctors around the country are growing increasingly frustrated at the restrictions that HMO money-vetting procedures have imposed on the exercise of their medical judgment. And a growing number of them want to do something about...
...lived affair. But though Anne believed she and Charles were "badly mated," she deliberately chose to play the role of the hero's wife. As her daughter Reeve told Berg, "Mother enjoyed wearing her hair shirt." Reeve wrote in her own memoir, "It was sometimes an uneasy and uncomfortable union, but my belief, nonetheless, is that neither one of my parents felt fully alive, or truly like himself or herself, unless the other one was there...