Word: shields
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...severe recession since the 1930s. This painful therapy, together with the borrowing binge required to finance the budget and trade deficits, produced the economic expansion now in its seventh year. Today, with unemployment at a 14-year low of 5.3% and inflation at a tolerable 4.4%, Reagan has a shield against charges that his economic accomplishments rest on quicksand. When asked about the intractable pathology of the underclass, he sometimes replies, accurately but irrelevantly, that the newspapers are full of help-wanted ads. That a booming economy cannot match the chronically unemployed with available jobs is an irony Reagan chooses...
John Larkin Thompson, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, said the study would be particularly helpful in tracking trends if it is repeated in the future using the same methods...
...gist of a two-volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield the U. S., shore up the faltering savings and loan industry at an estimated cost of $50 billion, and allocate an additional $9 billion to $13 billion for programs aimed at underprivileged children. Most important, the former Presidents insisted, new taxes will be required to pay for these needed initiatives...
...longer among the world's elite. The long-running history of clashes between Massachusetts and its doctors every so often culminates in litigation. Most recently, the end of the summer found the Attorney General Jim Shannon suing two dozen Springfield obstetricians who were discontinuing their coverage by Blue Shield. Normally providers of Blue Shield are supposed to give Blue Shield one year's notice, and the doctors had simply decided they were unhappy with the coverage. But the state's assertion that the doctors had conspired to drop the coverage was laughable. Few agreed that the squabble justified a lawsuit...
...slain officer's father, Matthew Byrne, a retired New York police lieutenant, said he was giving Bush his son's shield and commendation bar "because we believe he and his administration will stand...