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...Healthcare contract he found the following: "Physicians shall agree not to take any action or make any communication which undermines or could undermine the confidence of enrollees, potential enrollees, their employers, their unions, or the public in U.S. Healthcare or the quality of U.S. Healthcare coverage." A further proviso stipulated that "physicians shall keep the Proprietary Information and this Agreement strictly confidential." Himmelstein says he found the whole restriction "so obnoxious I crossed it out" before signing. The emended contract was accepted without complaint...
...empted an expected bidding war by securing the broadcasting rights to the 2000 Summer and 2002 Winter Olympic Games for a combined $1.27 billion. The offer, which carried a weekend deadline and a proviso forbidding solicitation of counterbids, set a record for Olympic broadcasting...
...with murder inthe Mar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at the Aum Shinri Kyo cult's rural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in last night. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch...
...nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting at dawn as tens of thousands of chemical warfare and regular troops went on alert, bracing for possible retaliatory gas attacks from cult members...
...from the communist threat for Asia to develop its present independence and booming free-market prosperity? The argument on that is still ongoing. If the question is ever resolved, it will be done by historians, not by today's politicians and citizens. And the answer will come with a proviso: it will offer no guide to the future...