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The NYT insurance story is dramatic proof of a gaping hole in last year's Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, which was viewed at the time as taking the first important step towards universal coverage: namely, the bill says insurance companies have to extend coverage to those they had tended to cut off, but it doesn't say the companies can't gouge them for it.
The plane was equipped with a pickwick , a sharp distinctive cutting edge to gouge out the desired groove, and the term came to be applied to the wood as well as the tool.