Word: reforms
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...organizers concede the pace of reform to be agonizingly slow...
NORML and its local affiliate Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MASS CANN) distinguish between hemp, an herb, and marijuana, a special mixture of hemp leaves, stems and seeds. A chemical in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, is psychoactive...
Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...
Bush will try to get some traction by talking more about reform and stop trying to match Gore promise for promise, on prescription drugs and military pay and education spending. But with his enormous tax cut at the center of his budget, he doesn't have as much room to counterpunch. Reforming anything as vast as Social Security or Medicare or the Pentagon takes money too, as Americans learned from welfare reform. Gore puts $775 billion into Medicare, Bush $198 billion. Gore allots $115 billion for education, Bush $48 billion. For the environment, Gore offers up $120 billion, Bush just...
...group of reform-minded physicians, caregivers and academics hopes to change the way doctors approach dying. They want all of us to discuss it sooner, so that no one faces a Kevorkian moment. "Our expectations as a culture for end-of-life care are too low," says Dr. Ira Byock, author of Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. He thinks the assisted-suicide debate misses the point: "Doctors spend 12 minutes with you, even if you have a serious illness. So we only have a couple minutes to listen to your deepest fears...