Word: precursor
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...debate has progressed, the public option has become an ideological flash point, igniting fears on the right that it will be the precursor to a government-run system like Canada's and some European countries'. Which is the same reason that many on the left like the public option so much...
...Internet. In 1978, a man named Gary Turk sent an e-mail solicitation to 400 people, advertising his line of new computers. (Turk later said his methods proved so unpopular that it would be more than a decade before anyone would try again.) In late 1994, Usenet - a newsgroup precursor to the Internet - was inundated by an advertisement for the immigration-law services of Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel. Despite the ensuing outcry, the lawyers defended their practice, called their detractors anti-free speech "zealots" and wrote a book about the practice titled How to Make a Fortune...
...uninsured - are expected to sign up for it. But the public option has assumed an outsized political significance, thanks to the fact that it has become a flash point between the left and the right. That is in part because both see it as a potential precursor to a government-run single payer system, similar to those of Canada and some European countries...
...lend themselves to empirical testing. His standard line is that he's not smart enough for macro. But he's been smart enough to avoid it - and to win, in 2003, the John Bates Clark Medal, an award for the top under-40 American economist that is often the precursor to a Nobel (no, he's not really a "rogue economist"). His work also caught writer Dubner's attention, which led to the 2003 article in the New York Times Magazine that spawned Freakonomics...
...speech, the 1951 graduate of Harvard School of Public Administration (the precursor to the Kennedy School), stressed that many of the causes of the recession have not been fully repaired...