Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect doctors against astronomical malpractice awards for death or total disability-20 of which have exceeded $1 million-California's Governor Edmund Brown Jr. has backed the creation of a statewide malpractice fund that would collect fixed annual fees averaging $4,000 per doctor and use that money to pay off claims. These now average $36,000. But Brown wants something in exchange from California's doctors; he has asked them to treat more patients under the state's limited-fee Medi-Cal program,* provide free care for the poor and set up a "medical Peace Corps...
...Cambridge, even for alumni willing to settle for menial jobs. Unemployment in Massachusetts is now hovering between 11 and 12 per cent and in Cambridge, it is even higher: 12.8 per cent, compared to 11.4, for example, in the rest of the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard graduates can't collect unemployment compensation unless they have held a local job, their employer contributed to the state unemployment insurance fund, and they did not quit but were fired. Even then, the amount of unemployment money will probably be small...
does a far better job of taking care of its unemployed than it used to. Jobless benefits paid out during 1975 totaled about $20 billion; an unemployed worker with dependents can now collect up to $156 a week tax free for as long as 65 weeks, though the average payment is $71 a week...
Last June, Aramco asked Fluor to design and build a $4 billion plant to collect, process and pump 5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day. When completed in 1979, the facility will fuel Saudi Arabia's $142 billion industrialization program. The job will return to the U.S. a lot of money that American industries spend to buy foreign oil. "The Saudis instructed us both to buy as much equipment as possible in the U.S. and maximize engineering in America," says Bob Fluor. "That may be $3 billion in equipment orders. It certainly won't hurt...
Calcutta is still the heart of the effort. There, Mother Teresa and her followers collect the dying from the streets so that they may leave life in peace among friends. They rescue abandoned newborn babies from garbage heaps, nurse them back to health if they can, find homes for them later. They seek out the diseased and the hurt, sponging maggot-bloated wounds as if-an image that sustains them -they were sponging the wounds of Jesus. They have made havens for lepers, the retarded and the mad; they have found work for the jobless. "Not for a second...