Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longstanding barriers. Three far-reaching civil rights acts went beyond anything since Reconstruction. A series of laws aimed at slum renovation and consumer protection were progressive and long overdue. The various anti-poverty programs, while uneven in efficacy and wisdom, were the beginning of a necessary break with the dole approach. In the foreign field, the continuing torment of Viet Nam overshadowed significant accomplishments. Most notable were agreements with the Russians and the beginning of the process that could lead to realistic arms control. The Glassboro summit with Aleksei Kosygin helped start this movement...
Rough Challenge. The idea originated with a husband-wife team, Dr. Vincent P. Dole, a specialist in metabolic research at Rockefeller University, and Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist. As a substitute for heroin, which may cost the addict $50 a day and is virtually certain to lead him to crime, they hit upon methadone. It is a synthetic painkiller, widely prescribed for cancer patients and for people who have undergone surgery. Such prescriptions are not renewable, since it is undeniably addicting. But physical dependence on methadone is less stubborn than that on heroin or other opium derivatives, and patients...
Physicians are naturally ultracautious about giving an addictive drug to known addicts. So Drs. Dole and Nyswander began conservatively, with small numbers of patients. They insisted then, and still do, that the addiction must have persisted for four years, that all patients have records of arrests as a result of their habit, and must have failed in using previous cure methods. At first, the doctors met vociferous opposition from fellow physicians and laymen who worried about the morality of giving drugs to addicts. Yet as the number of successful cases grew, they won not only increasing professional tolerance but also...
Congress won't spend more on poverty for two reasons: 1) too many of them have a conservative's paranoia about the dole; and 2) there isn't enough money left over in the budget as a whole as it is worked...
...past, hugely prosperous decade, no fewer than 2,900,000 people have been added to the dole, so that today, 9,000,000 Americans are receiving welfare. The bill has risen even faster: excluding social security and other Government insurance plans, the cost of welfare to all levels of government is $5.5 billion a year. Of this, the Federal Government pays a little more than half, the cities about 12%, and the states a third. Many of the cities, including local government in the suburbs, are discovering that welfare is threatening them with bankruptcy. In a little more than...