Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid exorbitant fees, Denholtz suggests, try a little new-fashioned comparison shopping. According to the American Dental Association's 1975 fee survey, national U.S. averages are $10 for a silver filling on one tooth surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said...
...when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...
...capitalism. They feel that America can hold out, and this is the main psychological factor behind the rising investment." Profit margins of U.S. corporations are now almost twice those of European firms, partly because productivity is higher. The U.S. has become something of a cheap-labor market in comparison with its European trading partners. Until the early 1970s, European labor was less costly than American. But all that has since changed. Washington devalued the overpriced dollar, inflation gathered momentum in Europe, and powerful European labor unions began winning not only higher wages but all sorts of other benefits...
...incident. But an increasing percentage of the revenues pay for a rapidly expanding bureaucracy. The P.L.O. has opened offices-in effect, quasi embassies-in about 100 nations. Heads of the larger offices in Europe and North America receive around $1,500 a month along with "representation" allowances; by comparison a guerrilla private in the fighting ranks receives $70 plus family allowances, medical expenses and social security...
Certainly the U.S. should not allow itself to be pushed, by the threat of Communist advances, into a policy toward South Africa that is against its self-interest. But all the past reasons for the U.S. support of South Africa-trade, raw materials, strategic position -fade in comparison with the great symbolic issue. 'South Africa has made itself into a kind of international acid test of decency on race. This is not to say that South Africa must be opposed unconditionally on all issues. But the U.S. cannot support the present government unless its policies change. This indeed...