“They have health plans that don’t provide affordable access to care,”said Sara Collins, senior adviser and vice president at the Fund.“They have out-of-pocket costs and deductibles that are high relative to their income.” This predicament has forced many to assume medical debt or skip ...
And he said, "The high street has been dead for years. It just doesn't know it yet." So it's dead high street walking. And then about great cyber punk writer, William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, who said something like, "The future is already here. It's just not been widely ...
“Weaver, corrupter of the present age, Who first taught silent sins upon the stage.” That the Covent Garden manager, John Rich, [4] could engage four French dancers, and a German with two dogs, taught to dance the _Louvre_ and the _Minuet_, at ten pounds a night, and clear there...
Large sums of silver were offered in payment for raw materials when the British demand was high, as was the case throughout the American Civil War (1861–65), but, after the Civil War ended, restoring raw cotton from the southern United States to Lancashire mills, the Indian market collapse...
Yet, overall, standards of living were rising. While the 1840s were a bad time for workers and the poor—they were dubbed“the hungry forties”—overall the trend was toward a less precarious life. Most families not only had a home and enough to eat but also had something leftover for ...
He said they did not finish yet and that there was approximately 20,000 ballots. STRANGE that Kelowna called out a winner without that many ballots counted. 6- Many voters spent the day going from Polling Station to Polling Station trying to vote because the Election Canada website was not ...
“He has been unhappy, he has been ravaged,” she said. “And haven’t I been unhappy? Am not I – you’ve only to look at me! – ravaged?” “Ah I don’t say I like him BETTER,” she granted after a thought. “But he’s grim, he’s worn – and things have happened to...
one need not share Henry's own high opinion of the chapter.It doesn't suggest introspective brooding very well,and is much more heavily written than most of the rest of the novel.What it does suggest is the closeness of the author's identification and perhaps his as yet unrealised ...
She knew even intimate things about him that he hadn't yet told her and perhaps never would. He wasn't unaware that he had told her rather remarkably many for the time, but these were not the real ones. Some of the real ones, however, precisely, were what she knew. They were to...
Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live--that is, keep comfortably warm--and die in New England at last. The luxuriously rich are not simply kept ...