Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's diplomats in Washington do not count among Embassy Row's real swingers, even though Freeman will enjoy an annual entertainment allowance of $96,000. Disliking cocktail parties, he prefers dinners for a score of guests or fewer, a custom that will not devalue the cachet that Washington society has always attached to invitations embossed with the lion and unicorn of Britain. As a man who professes to enjoy most of all "lurking round the edges of politics," Ambassador Freeman is bound to find plenty of entertainment in Byzantium-on-the-Potomac...
...Westlake, Calif., a new community developed by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. 38 miles northwest of Los Angeles, home prices stretch from $28,000 to $75,000, and fewer than 20% of the people who work in Westlake's industrial park, mostly at skilled or white-collar jobs, live in town. Columbia, Md., a new town developed by the Rouse Co. midway between Bal timore and Washington, has succeeded in attracting blacks, who constitute 15% of the city's current population of 4,000; but its architecture tends to be pedestrian, and most residents still work elsewhere. Reston...
...present brevity means that it need solicit fewer advertisements to support itself. So, to the extent that it is competing with Boston After Dark for advertising, it is now less vulnerable. Its changed form also makes it a completely different sort of publication than BAD. It no longer tries to review events extensively; it spotlights only one movie, one concert, and one dramatic production. The rest of the Calendar is just that, a calendar...
...gouging against the 7,200 members of the New York County (Manhattan) Medical Society, and 25% of them win remission or reduction of the fee. -Only 31 states reported revocation of license proceedings for 1967. These states had 469 cases in which 208 licenses were revoked. No fewer than 148 revocations were for nonpayment of license fees. Violation of the narcotics laws, including self-addiction, with 13 cases, and abortion, with ten cases, were the only causes relating to medical practice. -About 5,100 of them are operated as nonprofit institutions and awkwardly called "voluntary"; the rest, concentrated in California...
...reasons. Under the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, any hamlet could raise hospital of matching 20 to funds 30 to get beds ? itself and a too tiny many did. These are not only uneco nomic but bad for medicine, says New Orleans Surgeon Alton Ochsner: no hospital with fewer than 100 beds is medically viable, and he suggests that none should have more than...