Word: basics
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...traditionally Democratic issues, health care and the environment, the candidates took further pains to agree on basic principles. Both candidates recognized that 40 million uninsured young people is a sad record for the wealthiest nation on earth; Gore's response featured immediate federal efforts to enable mothers and children to obtain health care, while Bush argued that not all the uninsured desire insurance and proposed medical savings accounts to provide incentives...
...high demand: Every student wishing to take any other economics class must first take Ec 10. Additionally, as it is also a Core class, hundreds of undergrads flock to Ec 10 each year to fulfill their Social Analysis requirement. And hundreds more take the class simply to obtain a basic knowledge of economics, a skill crucial to the success of the many consultants and I-bankers that Harvard churns...
...alumnus of the College and a former employee of the HIID, I found lamentable The Crimson's editorial "A Difference of Nomenclature" (Editorial, Oct. 4). It demonstrated not only a profound misunderstanding of basic facts but terribly misguided reasoning...
George W. Bush had a simple fiscal policy as Texas Governor: he called for meeting the people's "basic needs" and returning what's left to "the hands who earned it." But it didn't work that way for Ray Haros, a poor kid from Austin's barrio in need of health insurance. While Bush delivered $2.7 billion in tax relief, Ray got left out of the equation...
...matrimony but because I've been talking to Norman Epstein, a researcher at the University of Maryland who surveyed more than 1,000 married couples to try to understand why they fight. "Something trivial will set off a couple," he explains. "But underlying the fight is a more basic issue: whether the spouses hold the same standards for the relationship...