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WANT A PREVIEW OF HOW FIERCELY INSURANCE COMPANIES might battle Bill Clinton's health-care proposals? Look at the way national insurers are pouring cash into California to defeat PROPOSITION 166, which would require all employers to provide health coverage for workers. Fearing that medical costs could billow under the plan, insurance firms with headquarters outside the state have put up more than 80% of the $2.3 million that opponents have raised to defeat it. The companies also fear that Clinton's proposal for a government-run program for employees not covered at work could lead to federal control...
...round sun figures on them and had red balls on their wings. I put on the radio and discovered we were being attacked by Japan. No one knew what to do. We were students and didn't realize the gravity of what we were seeing. We saw a huge billow of smoke rising from Pearl Harbor and later found out that it was the Arizona. It burned for hours...
...undercut bank and knowing where the trout are holding and which fly to use. But having gone through the novitiate, fly-fishermen are never the same again. They scan rivers and lakes, seeing water but imagining the life underneath. They concentrate for hours, zenlike, watching thunderheads build and billow above, gazing at streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight of a trout, that near perfect fish, as it fins and darts, drifts and feeds in clear mountain water. Those visions take hold and simply...
...speak; and to look at the landscape background is to realize what English artists a century later, particularly Gainsborough, would gain from Reni. He had an inspired sense of the mechanics of composition, as Nessus and Dejanira proves: an airy ballet on the theme of rape, in which every billow and facet of the drapery seems to operate as form...
...fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook) and Not the Nine o'Clock News (Mel Smith). The air will billow with bombastic insults ("You hippopotamic land mass!") and a record-breaking number of comic speech impediments...