Word: existing
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...Without federal funds, the $47 billion interstate highway system would be beyond the states' resources. Without federal regulatory laws, railroads and airlines, radio and television, interstate business and national labor unions would be subject to 50 separate state codes. And as long as crop quotas and price supports exist, a uniform federal program for agriculture is the only bar to total chaos...
Last year, the task force estimates, dirty air cost New Yorkers $500 million. Moreover, "all the ingredients now exist for an air-pollution disaster of major proportions-given the same sheltered topography as Los Angeles, New York City would be uninhabitable." The biggest offender is the city government itself, whose eleven garbage incinerators alone spew forth some 39 tons of filth daily. The local utility, Consolidated Edison, is another major contributor, last year burned 10 billion Ibs. of soft coal and more than 800 million gals, of oil inside city limits...
...most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
...more intimate relationships exist, outside the family or the church, than that of the average person with his doctor. Each year, nearly one billion visits are made to the U.S.'s 225,000 practicing doctors, or about five visits for every American. Each visitor expects not only medical care but comfort, sympathy, relief, reassurance and solace. There was a day when he could be sure of getting all these: the day, not too far past, of the family physician who often knew as much about his patient as he did about an illness. Today, Americans get far better medical...
Rusk, in short, displays this kind of one-track thought which we have come to associate with Southern Senators. Compromise does not exist for such high minded gentlemen: honor will not permit it. Furthermore, Rusk tends to identify his personal honor with the national honor. "I am honored to have my name associated with the doctrine that the United States must honor its pledged word," Rusk has said repeatedly. What appears to bother Rusk most of all about the war in Vietnam, one suspects is the lack of chivalry on the other side...