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...Government also could develop special programs for coping with highly inflationary sectors of the economy. The standout one is the field of health care; Carter noted that daily hospital charges have rocketed from $15 in 1950 to more than $200 now, and doctors' fees have risen much faster than other consumer prices. One big reason: Government and private health-insurance plans guarantee payment of "reasonable and customary" fees, which in practice has meant just about anything that a doctor or hospital can get away with. Carter last week pleaded with Congress to pass a bill he sent up last...
Higginson said all the boats "are kind of close together. There are three of four boats faster than us now, but there were last year at this time...
...going a lot faster than in San Diego," Perkins said, adding that with more miles, there should be further improvement...
There were encouraging performances, especially in the hurdles and 200-meter runs; but as Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said. "You can't argue too much with our running--it's just that they were running faster...
Consumer prices in February jumped at an annual rate of 7.4%-not as bad as January's 10%, but quite bad enough. For the third month in a row, prices rose faster than wages, and workers' purchasing power declined. The index of leading indicators, those figures that are supposed to foretell the economy's future, showed no change from January, when it had dropped 1.9%. The U.S. trade deficit in February was a startling $4.5 billion, the worst ever in one month. At home the Carter Administration's economists fear that unemployment in the next month...