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The NYT piece on Clinton's response makes the same main points, and has the same explanatory quote from him, but juxtaposes this with an interview with Sen.
On Christmas Eve 1998, Berger sent a final draft to President Clinton, with an explanatory memo.
The selection of 1200 entries for inclusion seems a bit esoteric, but the general structure of the work--entry word, part of speech, definition, citation(s), and, in many cases, an explanatory comment on the origin of the term, its etymology, and other information--is straightforward.
However, and perhaps surprisingly, health inequality is otherwise unrelated to the type of political system either directly or in interaction with any of the five potential explanatory variables.
As a result, in any newspaper article about his testimony the directly quoted material is almost always meaningless without gobs of explanatory text.