Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard had two representatives on the Ivy League second team, goalie Bruce Durno and defenseman Chris Gurry. Sophomore Durno made 252 saves, 88 per cent of the shots on goal, this season against Ivy teams...
...despite these efforts at curbing Roxbury's swollen sickness rate, no one is pretending that the Harvard health plan is solely--or even primarily--designed to help the poor. The 6000 poor patients who will join the program will make up only 20 per cent of the plan's membership. The other 80 per cent--24,000 people --will be people who now have Blue Cross or other kinds of private insurance...
...knows part of the problem. The astounding increase in the cost of hospital care shows no sign of slowing down, and it makes the much bewailed "rise in the cost of living" look trivial by comparison. While the cost of staying alive in America has jumped some 21 per cent since 1960, the cost of staying alive in a hospital has zoomed up by nearly 125 per cent. Drugs an physician's services haven't quite kept pace, but they have both risen by about 45 per cent in the last ten years...
Although both the AEC's yearly grants of $1.35 million to Harvard researchers and of $35 million to the CEA will remain constant, general inflation causes five to six per cent yearly decrease in the purchasing power of these funds...
...Take Dorchester," he pointed out. "May 20 there's going to be a primary there for a vacant seat in the legislature. There's a black candidate who has a good chance of defeating some conservative opponents, and Dorchester is 30 per cent black. But these people have to be told...