doughnut hole (gap in Medicare drug coverage)

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Thu Sep 28 15:17:10 UTC 2006


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
>
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>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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