Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...same shape of career as early bloomers." But they often approach the second half of their lives with added intensity. Says Mary Furlong, founder of ThirdAge Media: "Fifty rolls onto the odometer, and they say, 'Wow! How do I want to spend my time and money?' They worry less about things and more about making a difference...
Managed-care companies, not surprisingly, deny that their cost controls have put the system in jeopardy. They claim that retrospective rejections are becoming less common and that they've stopped requiring preauthorization for visits to the ED; a good portion of those visits, they add, are unnecessary. "Even though people complain about waits at the doctor's, the wait in many EDs is longer," says Dr. Charles Butler, chief medical officer at the American Association of Health Plans...
...compared with, say, Ronald Reagan's at the end of his term. Most of these things, though, are simply extensions of programs Clinton has proposed for years, and it remains to be seen whether there's that much left to spend when the calculation of the budget surplus is less optimistic." While GOP leaders balked at the President's big spending plans, the party's overall response was cautious - where Clinton worked a traditional Republican theme on tax cuts, the GOP's designated respondents, Senators Susan Collins and Bill Frist, emphasized their party's activist commitment on the Democratic staples...
...campaigned so openly and so vigorously for his vice president," says Branegan. "But Gore and Clinton share the same New Democrat agenda, and a Gore victory would vindicate Clinton's legacy." So the President's "personal mistake," as Gore so delicately put it earlier this week, is a lot less important to the vice president than claiming bragging rights for the unprecedented prosperity that has coincided with Bill Clinton's tenure...
...before anyone jumps to the conclusion that these connections could lead straight to Bin Laden's lair, it's worth remembering that his organization is far less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became...