Annual growth in total Medicare spending averaged 4.1% between 2010 and 2014, compared to 9.0% between 2000 and 2010, based on data from OACT, despite growth in the number of beneficiaries and increases in health care costs over these years (Figure 3) .
bowfin - primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America. Amia calva, dogfish, grindle. ganoid, ganoid fish - primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering. Amia, genus Amia - type genus of the Amiidae.
Facetiously, that is the method where you nail a bowfin to a plank, roast it over an open fire, throw away the fish, and eat the plank. Bowfin are not real tasty according to my sources! Bowfin are also called mudfish, cypress trout, grinners, grindle, dogfish, and assorted unpleasant names. They will hit just about anything and can destroy a crankbait or spinnerbait. In a West Point tournament in the early 1980s I was catching bass on a white spinnerbait up the river.