Word: welling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...need a title to make a difference," declared Sarah Palin on Oprah Winfrey. Well, yes and no. Palin resigned as governor of Alaska last summer, but she came with a title: Going Rogue, the title of her new political calling card, autobiography and score settler...
...waters for a new kind of public influence, one outside the politics-as-usual path of "holding office" and "governing" and "finishing your term." And if it meant going through the mainstream media--which Going Rogue calls "in many respects, worthless as a source of factual information anymore"--well, a rogue's gotta do what a rogue's gotta...
...meet, in due course, the deceived husband as well: "A brilliant neurologist, a renowned lecturer [and] a gentleman of independent means, Dr. Philip Wild had everything save an attractive exterior." Philip is older, eccentric and miserly, and he's less interested in Flora than in a bizarre experiment he's conducting on himself. As he feels his aging flesh deteriorating, he develops the habit of entering a trance wherein he pictures his body and then mentally erases portions of it; he begins with his toes, which instantly become numb. By this means, he imagines that he is bringing about...
Nationwide, employee insurance premiums have increased 131% over the past decade, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. And it's well documented that smoking and obesity are associated with higher medical costs. That helps explain why 34% of respondents in a new Aon survey of more than 1,300 employers said they plan to introduce or increase financial incentives to encourage participation in wellness programs and why 17% plan to do the same for disease-management programs...
...trying to get across to the population that they have to take responsibility for their well-being and engage in more healthy behavior," says Jack Walker, executive director of the North Carolina State Health Plan. The plan estimates that claims for chronic diseases related to obesity may top $108 million a year and claims for tobacco-related illnesses more than $137 million a year...