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Impressed with the way Lance built roads and reduced the payroll, Carter gave him a major role in his campaign to restructure the entire state government. In the process, Lance developed a reputation for standing up to his boss. Angered by Carter's chronic failure to show gratitude to his staffers, Lance once told the Governor, "I've worked miracles for you, and you never say Thank...
...welfare programs. The government claims to have built 346,000 new housing units since 1970, virtually eliminating slums. Medical care is free, and Libyans can increasingly afford the foreign consumer goods piled up in Tripoli's mile-long port. Like other oil-rich Arab lands, Libya has a chronic labor shortage. Nearly 300,000 workers-about 40% of the labor force-come from abroad. They include 250,000 Egyptians, who send $400 million annually home to aid their hard-pressed economy...
...special "forgiveness" cases the University does not require a student to repay his loan. These are extreme hardship cases, usually involving chronic mental or physical disabilities...
...Decline. In fact, he says, the elderly are "simply people who have been here longer" and are no less creative or mentally intact than anyone else. Though the elderly are more prone to chronic diseases, they get fewer acute illnesses than the general population; a person over 65 has an average of 1.3 acute illnesses a year, compared with 2.1 a year for all ages. Comfort cites a Duke University study showing that about half of a group of people over 65 who returned for periodic checkups had no detectable physical decline over periods ranging from three to 13 years...
...promptly insisted that there was no link between the deaths and the vaccine. They pointed out that the average age of these 35 people was 71.2 years. At the time the deaths were the only ones among some 1 million people 65 or older and, in some cases, chronically ill (the group that has top priority in the vaccination program), who had received shots. Yet during any single 24-hour period, there are some 16 deaths in this age bracket among every 100,000 Americans. The gist of the official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among...