doughnut hole (gap in Medicare drug coverage)

[Beverly Flanigan]

No problem--I just wondered if Atlanta really was that big!

At 11:17 AM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
>Radius--but I was just guessing about the distances.
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:53:44 -0400
> >From: Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
> >Subject: Re: doughnut hole (gap in Medicare drug coverage)
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >
> >Do you mean radius or diameter?
>
> >
> >At 10:29 AM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
>
> >>I don't know how old or how widely applied it is, but there's another
> use of "doughnut" that I've been noticing for the past several
> years:  Demographers, election analysts, et al. refer to the band of
> suburbs and small cities (largely white, affluent, and politically
> rightish) circling metropolitan Atlanta as "the doughnut."  The radius of
> the "hole" is perhaps 8 or 10 miles, of the doughnut itself maybe 30 or
> 40 miles.
> >>
> >>Where would our langauge and our culture be without doughnuts!
> >>
> >>--Charlie
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