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Be that as it may, a tobacco company that dared to make an unabashed link between cigarettes and pleasure would have had the book thrown at them.
Back in the 1960s when Medicaid passed into law with scant attention, a few brave analysts dared to suggest that the poor might be better served at far lower cost if the money were spent on developing well-staffed, multidisciplinary health clinics in chronically underserved inner cities and rural areas--sort of like, well, HMOs.
That was scarcely more than the 5 percent who dared the pollsters' scorn by admitting outright that "the Clinton-Lewinsky matter" concerned them most.
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
In his crime bill, passed in 1994, he went further than any Republican president would have dared to restrict habeas corpus, the writ by which state prisoners, including those on death row, can get their cases reviewed by federal courts.