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...major difficulty, of course, is a pervasively corrosive attitude that is typical of our times. In our Iron Age, the concept of liberal education tends to be no longer even mentioned, let alone understood. Once this concept is lost, education becomes a mere commodity, to be evaluated in material terms. Then the word shopping in the expression shopping period becomes an ominous sign of unmitigated materialism, as if all that mattered were the usefulness of education for one's immediate or ultimate material well-being...
Make health insurance more affordable. At the heart of the Clinton plan is the concept of "managed competition." Health-insurance buyers would band together in large "alliances" to bargain with competing networks of doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers for the best service at the best price. The theory is that such bargaining will encourage lower costs and greater efficiency (fewer unnecessary tests, for example). Rather than simply trust in this theory, however, the Clinton plan would also strictly enforce limits on health-care spending through a powerful new National Health Board that would decide when health-care providers...
Unfortunately, Aideed will not willingly surrender himself. Thus, his capture requires force, a concept that makes Jimmy Carter and many aid workers in Somalia squeamish. The aid workers in particular have good reason; they have seen enough death and violence...
...miracle deal is that River of Dreams works not just as a cohesive concept album but also as a bunch of damn fine songs with heart and hooks. Half-a-dozen singles, like the unavoidable, irresistible title track, could be playing for years on the jukebox in your head...
...Artful Equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocate would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality...