Word: coping
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...million Americans unprotected; the new program would set up a Government plan to cover the poor, the unemployed and the self-employed. Nixon's plan would incorporate such existing Medicaid benefits as eyeglasses and dental care for children, provide for mental illness, including alcoholism and drug abuse, and cope with the costs of catastrophic illness by ensuring that no family would have to pay out more than $1,500 for major medical care in any given year. It also includes provisions to control hospital and doctors' fees...
...Little children walking to school in the dark? No, mothers are driving them. This is saving energy? No matter how Congress legislates, there are only a limited number of hours of daylight. We on the western edge of a time zone are using more electricity to cope with the extra hour of morning darkness than we did with the hour of evening darkness...
...Neill is not waiting for a bombshell to remove the problem. And as he harries along the impeachment proceedings, he has other problems to worry about. A long agenda of important legislation looms. Congress has yet to pass an emergency energy bill to give the President broad powers to cope with the fuel shortage. In the wake of Watergate, there are bills to tighten the income tax laws and to provide federal financing for political campaigns. A trade bill is pending to give the President the power to negotiate worldwide agreements easing the flow of goods. There is rising sentiment...
...visit to the Midlands, the industrial region hardest hit by the two-day layoffs, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week found Britons managing remarkably well despite the current economic dislocations. "If there is any pride around the Midlands," cabled McWhirter, "it is that they have managed to cope with half-time employment better than anyone else could have. This is our specialty, mate,' said Jack Hebbs, a Midlands shop steward. 'Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine...
...overtime and Sundays for the past five weeks, walked out after the government threatened disciplinary pay cuts for men engaged in 'the job action. The trainmen have said they will stage another one-day strike this week if the National Railways Board does not resume negotiations. To help cope with the crisis, Prime Minister Heath last week created a new Department of Energy with sweeping powers over offshore oil, coal, gas, electricity and nuclear energy. He named his closest adviser, Lord Carrington, the outgoing Secretary of Defense, to head...