Word: supportive
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...most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
There is money to be made in open source. Brand-name Linux packages cost money. De Icaza's company, Helix Code, sells Gnome service and support. And big tech companies stand to benefit if there is an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft products. Which explains why this is one revolution significant parts of corporate America can get behind...
Still, ethnic divisions in Montenegro do not run so deep as they do elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. Montenegrins, unlike Croats and Kosovo Albanians, are ethnically similar to Serbs. Support for outright independence from Serbia among ordinary Montenegrins is mixed: about 35% are for it at any cost, while a much larger proportion--including members of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic's ruling party--say they would prefer continued ties with Serbia, but under a different regime. "Time is on the side of a democratic Montenegro," says a Djukanovic ally, Save Paraca, mayor of Cetinje, the traditional heartland of Montenegrin nationalism...
Harvey also never managed to make money, getting by with just enough odd landscaping jobs to pay for his tiny San Francisco apartment. Three years ago, however, he started to support himself from Burning Man entrance fees, which now range up to $250, and Harvey has plans to entice Silicon Valley millionaires into sponsoring its art and providing for spin-off festivals. He is also preparing a manual to distribute to anyone who wants to build his own Burning Man. "This will be Rome to the colonies," he says of his Nevada experiment...
...brisk during their appointments, as HMO-era doctors must be. Even when she was first told she had a terminal illness, the doctor and staff gave little comfort. "They don't want you crying," Gans says. A nurse had two words for her: "Calm down." Eventually Gans found a support group, Gilda's Club, named for comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. When Gans arrived for the first meeting, she saw that it was called a "wellness group." But what she needed was a chance to discuss the reality of her impending death--her frail appearance, the sheer...