Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...85th Congress failed to pass a school construction bill to relieve the nation's critical classroom shortage, failed to provide for a turnover of Government in case of presidential disability, failed to appropriate funds for flood insurance, failed to approve statehood for Hawaii or Alaska, failed to follow Hoover Commission recommendations for budget-practice reform, failed to give federal aid to economically depressed areas, failed to revise lobby and campaign-spending laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter...
...determine payment. We've got to know something about the case." But doctors complain that insurance forms are not realistic, are more detailed than necessary and too diverse. Most frequent complaint: basic information about a patient's birthplace, business, earlier illnesses, etc. must be provided on most follow-up forms each time he gets new treatment. One Los Angeles physician gave a patient a simple penicillin shot, had to call him back for a second visit when the form also required a general health checkup. A Denver obstetrician simply ignores one insurance-form question: Was the pregnancy...
...records, even added a liquor department this year. Manhattan's E. J. Korvette (estimated 1957 sales: more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into the suburbs to follow population trends. Of its eleven stores, four (including two supermarkets) are in Westchester County, Long Island, suburban Philadelphia; seven of the nine new Korvette stores planned by the end of 1958 will be in other bustling suburbs...
...nearly $5,500,000 in bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses might be better spent elsewhere: in too many cases of inside boards, "small stockowners who constitute the majority of investors have little recourse except to follow the rough old rule: 'If you don't like what we are doing, sell your stock...
...between pitches, even during pregame warmup. Coach Berres was afraid visiting Washington Senator batters would pick up the rapid rhythm and tee off on the aging (36) righthander. But Keegan was afraid that if he slowed down he would lose his balance and fall off the mound on his follow through. So they worked out a compromise: Keegan concentrated on slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted...