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But, the Journal points out, with spending in the public health care sector (primarily Medicare and Medicaid) coming under firmer budgetary control, the growth of private medical costs may be poised to rise above 5% per year for the first time since the early 90s.
Leaning forward, with her hand shielding the strong sunlight from her eyes, she was looking, Arthur thought, particularly beautiful and poised.
The United States is poised to launch its third major military strike against Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War.
No wonder, then, that the exchanges between Lehrer and the Cabinet secretaries and senators and law professors and reporters seem so articulate and poised; that the guests are eager to return to the show; that Lehrer was a guest at one of Al Gore's pretentious "metaphor salon" dinner parties in 1994.
James Rosenquist's paintings and Richard Hamilton's drawings of rearranged car parts could hardly be more explicitly sexual (a finger poised by a dash-mounted gearshift, a talk balloon filled with an orgasmic "Aah!"