Word: expect
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...didn't matter that he was in his company's own backyard. When Aetna's new chairman, William H. Donaldson, approached the podium at the annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly...
...Brighton Gardens or MapleRidge (knowingly ironic boomer question: Where do they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...stands on a hill from which he can see his company's future as vividly as he can mix metaphors: "The explosion of baby boomers is like a freight train bearing down on us," he says. "Del Webb has already laid the tracks for the future, and we expect to benefit mightily...
...even if we're living the high life in Maple Boomer Retirement Ridge Heaven, don't expect us to mellow much, to lessen our demands, our insistent wish that the world pay attention to us, us, us!!! In a Del Webb survey of boomer attitudes, respondents said their greatest contribution in retirement will include "demanding funding for medical research." The red ribbon for AIDS and the pink ribbon of breast cancer will be replaced by gray ribbons of gerontology...
Bewley's Cafe would not seem to be a Sinead O'Connor kind of place. Given her reputation as a fiery, outspoken singer, one might expect her to favor shadowy, wrong-side-of-town pubs. Bewley's on Westmoreland Street at first glace seems like the kind of coffeehouse where one might spy Chandler, Monica and the rest of the Friends gang sipping cappuccinos. But in truth, Bewley's is a historic chain in Ireland (James Joyce is claimed as a past patron), so this is where O'Connor, who lives nearby in a three-bedroom apartment, chooses to meet...