Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to the medical crisis, the government has unloaded its standard fiscal arsenal. Through programs like Medicaid, it has hoped that it could give people money and let them buy their health -- as easily as hungry people could buy a loaf of bread. But the money does no good when the medical care isn't available...
Faced with the pressing demand of healing its sick people, the Federal government has responded with a standard tactic. The government has unloaded the federal fiscal arsenal--through programs like Medicare and Medicaid--and hoped that the poor would be able to buy their health, much as hungry people could health, much as hungry people could use government money to buy a loaf of bread. The simplistic analysis, however, ignores the root disease of the medical system. The money can't do any good when the care is not available...
Thomas E. Crooks '49, Master of Dudley House, announced yesterday that the dining hall will also be closed to all graduate students between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Harvard undergraduates will be able to buy their lunch...
...came under their worst speculative pressure since last November's currency crisis. In Paris, London and Zurich, the free-market price of gold climbed to all-time highs. It soared to $48.41 per oz. in Paris, compared with the official price of $35. Many people were lusting to buy gold, and practically no one was willing to sell. Frenchmen, historically distrustful of their own currency, defied monetary controls and smuggled suitcases full of francs into Switzerland and Belgium. There, they rushed to put their money into gold, Eurodollars and strong currencies-notably Swiss francs, Belgian francs and West German...
...Menley & James, which also makes Contac cold capsules, wanted a place in the $2 billion-a-year cosmetics market. At first, the company considered acquiring an existing cosmetics firm. President Peter Godfrey, who knew the then Mary Wells only by reputation, solicited her advice. Counseled Mary: "Don't buy a going concern. You'll get stuck with its image...