Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privacy activists. They fear that companies engaging in a broad range of financial services will have carte blanche to, say, check bank records before granting health insurance. "This will legalize unprecedented and Orwellian surveillance of the daily lives of bank customers," asserts the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, one of many consumer groups demanding that Congress kill--or Clinton veto--the bill. The industry says this is all overblown, and lawmakers behind the bill note that specific points in the legislation require full disclosure of any information sharing that will...
...chose his words so carefully because they could move markets, Robert Rubin is talking a blue streak. "When I got to the airport to leave Washington, I went through the metal detector. I never had to do that when I was Treasury Secretary. And I felt good about it. Then I went to make a phone call. I put my quarter and my dime in the pay-phone slot. There was nobody around. I was delighted to be on my own again. I felt liberated...
...million Amount Federal Express paid to rename Washington Redskins' Landover stadium "FedEx Field" for the next 27 years, the most costly stadium deal ever...
...seconds Estimated attention span of a goldfish Sources: The Washington Post, AP, Roper Starch Worldwide, American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
...years, the idea of medical "cost-effectiveness" has become synonymous with insurance plan bureaucracy, evoking images of penny-pinching accountants heartlessly rejecting pleas for medical help. Could Tuesday's announcement be the first pebble in an avalanche of new health plan policies? "Sure, it's one company," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "but it's the second largest in the country, and this is a very important move on their part...