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...tomb" National Health Service a generation ago, he responded to doctors' opposition by declaring, "I shall stop their mouths with money." Their criticisms have never really ceased, however, and in recent months NHS doctors have been objecting with increasing vehemence to a government plan that could severely curtail the lucrative private practices many of the senior specialists maintain on the side. Last week their resentment finally erupted into action. In the first nationwide strike since NHS was founded, the 15,000 junior physicians who provide much of the medical care in the system's hospitals refused to treat...
Kaysen's opponents, who were mainly representatives of the "hard sciences," made further unsuccessful attempts to curtail the creation of the social sciences department...
Because of weak stock market conditions many foundations had to drastically curtail gifts to the University, Chales D. Thompson '48, a development officer, said yesterday...
While the words exemplified Ford's courage, a quality no one has doubted Ford possesses, prudent White House aides predicted privately Ford will in fact curtail some of his travel plans and will move more circumspectly when he ventures out of Washington. The White House announced, however, that he will keep his speaking engagements this week in Chicago and Omaha...
...worth of goods, primarily oil from its jungle wells, coffee and bananas. But then hypernationalistic government ministers raised the price of oil 54&#cent; per bbl. above OPEC's price. In protest, the oil companies severely limited production. Although revenues plummeted, Ecuador's nouveau riche refused to curtail their lust for new foreign cars and TV sets, thereby helping to create a trade deficit that for the first six months of 1975 was an estimated $170 million...