Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even without the looming deadline on the debt ceiling, the mood in Washington over the next few weeks would be poisoned by the battle over Medicare. "Morally bankrupt" was the way Gingrich described the scare-the-elderly tactics the Democrats have been using to oppose his party's plans for Medicare reform. The House G.O.P.'s vague proposal would require much higher premium payments from more affluent patients--singles making more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000. It would raise the Part B premiums that cover doctors' fees, not requiring seniors to join health-maintenance organizations...
...long term, the future of the Coop was shadowed somewhat," said Dickson, who has been on the board for more than 15 years. "It could've on bankrupt it would have happened in the next few years...
...Coop had not brought Barnes and Noble on board, the 113-year-old general merchandise department store could have gone bankrupt, Dickson said...
...tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that his peers take more seriously than forgery...
...Cleveland to lay out his sales pitch, though not an actual plan; that will wait until fall. Before Congress breaks for its August recess this week, he intends to prime his troops to deliver the message. It goes like this: Medicare's own trustees say the program will go bankrupt in seven years; the Democrats are too lily-livered to do anything about it; and so it is up to the Republicans to "save Medicare" by clamping down on its growth rate and producing $270 billion in savings over the next seven years. When Gingrich talks about the fight ahead...