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...with some at more than 10%. Labor leaders, including the five on the Pay Board, insist that those raises be granted, and that people who lost out on increases during the freeze get them retroactively. Many economists figure that labor costs would rise by only a small fraction if all the contracted increases were allowed. The Administration is reluctant to make exceptions to any policy of curbing wage raises. But the President may well have little choice other than to permit some of the raises so that George Meany will have no excuse to lead many unions out on strike...
...increase in cost resulting from the substitution was termed a "small fraction of the total cost" of the Center by Bernard Budiansky, McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics, and structural consultant at the July review session. The total cost of the center, scheduled for completion by September, is estimated at $17.6 million, exclusive of laboratory equipment...
...history of the LEAA has been one of waste and mismanagement. A House subcommittee investigation last July turned up testimony that only a fraction of the $860 million appropriated by Congress as federal anticrime funds had actually reached the local agencies for which the money was intended. One witness described in detail the misuse of LEAA funds in Alabama; for example, $117,247 earmarked for a police-cadet program was used to pay college tuition for children of high-ranking officials in the state's department of public safety and their friends...
...Health Manpower Shortage: 1971-2000, Gordon's report is probably the most exhaustive inventory of global health resources ever undertaken. It is also the most depressing, for it shows that most nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America are capable of providing health care for only a minuscule fraction of their populations. Indonesia, for example, has just one doctor for every 28,000 people. The African continent, which increased its medical manpower by 2% between 1960 and 1967, still has but one physician for every 9,700 individuals. Southeast Asia has a ratio...
...authorities arrive at heroin addiction figures? They count known habitual users, of course, such as those who are arrested and those who sign up for treatment programs. But such figures account for only a fraction of the addict population. To arrive at an overall estimate, officials in many cities project from the number of overdose deaths, one commonly used criterion being 200 addicts for each fatality. A new study in Washington, D.C., indicates that because some overdose deaths have gone undetected, the number of active users may be even higher than previously estimated...