Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approaches the idea of allocation-rationing very warily, insisting that it is only a last resort. This is roughly analogous to rationing water in a desert when there's only a few drops left in the canteen. The time for rationing is earlier on, before the supplies are gone. If an equitable, and not necessarily severe, program of rationing coupled with price controls were instituted it would achieve conservation without drastic inflationary effects. Rationing would spread the burden more evenly over all segments of society. Price increases put the load, as usual, on those least able to bear...
...find out what happened requires a little research. The answer: the food problem has not gone away, but those who are talking and writing about it are fewer in number and have less of an immediate public impact than they did five years...
...hospitals are just as crowded?but with a higher percentage of untreatable patients. Many of these hapless people, in addition to their mental problems, are poor, infirm or alone and without any basic social skills to survive in the outside world. The drive to empty the hospitals may have gone as far as it can go. The readmission rate is up from 25% in 1960 to more than 65% today, which may indicate that too many have been released. As many as half of those discharged are now living alone, without the family support that psychiatrists think is essential...
...bring back pictures for which they were ill paid, and which posterity has treated with cavalier indifference. A priceless visual record of our immediate past has been lost, cut up or allowed to disintegrate in ill-tended vaults. Similarly, the stories of the people who made these films have gone untended by film librarians. Until...
...regard himself as a character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story of Gus Howkins ... precisely because that story had been his companion through all the recent events in his life. It had gone along with him, step by step, providing an alternative existence that had strangely held to the same contours as his actual one. It had been a life-saving overspill...