Word: demand
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...reason is that the ECG is relatively expensive; each reading costs an average of $15 or more. Another reason is that there are too few expert cardiologists to read all the ECGs now taken, let alone the millions more that a truly effective preventive-medicine program would demand. Now, in an application of transistor-age electronics, a compact new machine enables technicians to do the initial screening, and select for the cardiologists' attention only those ECGs that contain warning evidence of abnormalities...
...important final run-through, and suffered consequently from an almost total absence of pacing on opening night (it ran approximately three and three-quarter hours). Undaunted, Ginn has over the week-end edited some of the more repetitious sections of Genet's troubled text, and subsequent performances promise to demand less of its audience in return for somewhat more of a polished presentation...
...thousands of members, the routine is neither difficult nor unfamiliar. Their rule: let the baby suck to start the milk flow; the more it wants and sucks, the more plentiful the flow will be. There are exceptions, as there have been throughout history, when wet nurses have been in demand: some women simply cannot breastfeed. La Leche tries to reassure such women so that they will not feel guilty. There is no point in making a cult of breast feeding,* and La Leche advocates it only for those who both can and want to do it. La Leche mothers concede...
Under the U.S. auto-insurance system, at least 55% of the premium dollar should go to compensate traffic victims. There is a widespread feeling that this is not enough, and there are complaints about soaring rates, controversial policy cancellations and slow payment of claims. Some critics demand more federal regulation, along with a radical overhaul of the whole system. A Senate subcommittee has started a root-andbranch investigation of auto insurers; President Johnson has ordered the Department of Transportation to make a two-year probe...
With 32 depositor nations among its members, the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, in the 18 months of its lifetime, has sought to prove its own stability in an area of economic turmoil. Its funds - partly kept on demand in 44 world banks-- earned interest of $4.5 million in 1967 while a multitude of possible investments were being cautiously evaluated. "We are new boys in this business," says Bank President Takeshi Watanabe, 62, of Japan, "and we must be sure of what we are doing...