Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors' fees have doubled since 1940, but this is less than the average price increase for consumer goods and services in general. The boost in doctors' incomes is mainly a result of the fact that they are seeing many more patients. They still work long hours (60 a week is common), and they crowd more patients' visits into each hour. But they are practicing more efficiently. Doctors, says Harris, are generally better educated than they used to be, have whole batteries of new laboratory tests and technicians' services to help them decide on the right diagnosis...
...debt limit -and there have been four of them in the past two years alone-seem to signal a riproaring, breast-beating debate in Congress on Government spending. But last week, when Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon went before the House Ways and Means Committee to request a $9 billion boost that would lift the limit to an alltime high of $324 billion, there was hardly a protest to be heard. The committee did not even bother with a roll call, instead gave speedy voice-vote approval to Dillon's request...
...meeting was put off 24 hours. But after a day's rest, he not only presided over the meeting but played host to King Mahendra of Nepal. Later in the week, De Gaulle received a delegation of 14 mothers who have given his "100 Million Frenchmen" campaign a boost by bearing big families, also welcomed a papal legate on hand to help celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
...Million Boost. The government's mightiest weapon, however, promises to be an emergency tax law to reduce the estimated $1.1 billion budget deficit for 1964. That, says Castello Branco, is "the primary cause of our inflation," and he has already rammed through Congress a bill to increase revenues by $500 million or more this year...
...favorable statistics lurked the threat of an unbeatable Villanova scoring punch. The Wildcats qualified ten men, and their power was supposed to be in the longer running events, which did not have trials. In addition, their strong sprint contigent of Earl Horner and Marshall Uzzle got a big boost when injuries side-lined the pre-meet favorites. Sam Perry of Fordham and Bob Mattis of Manhattan...