Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason has been tax policies that favor consumption over investment or business fear that recession and/or inflation will wipe out the profit on new investment. In either case, the result has been to slow the introduction of cost-cutting, labor-saving machinery and, says the CEA, to slash the growth of productivity by half a percentage point each year...
...overnight, speeding up productivity might well take a discouragingly long time. The '70s lag in investment and R. and D., in particular, will go on harming productivity well into the '80s. But the effort must be started. A long period of sluggish productivity would mean an era of slow growth, little or no rise in living standards, persistent unemployment and high inflation?just like the '70s, only worse...
Medical researchers have long suspected that electricity can stimulate bone growth. But it was not until 1970 that Dr. Carl Brighton and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine actually showed that a small direct current could help mend patients' stubborn fractures. Today several dozen hospitals in the U.S. and abroad are using electrical treatment on orthopedic patients for whom other therapies have failed. Says Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, chief of Columbia-Presbyterian's orthopedic research labs: "No question about it. In these cases, electricity can significantly speed up the healing process...
Bassett reports solid bone growth in 80% of 308 patients; Brighton says that he has achieved an 84% cure rate in his 200 cases. Their patients have even more reason to be pleased. As his cast and magnetic coils were removed last month, Brachfield asked anxiously: "Can I play shuffleboard? Can I bowl?" Bassett hesitated a moment, looked at an X ray of the healed fracture, then confidently assured his patient that he would soon be playing both sports...
...poll, to be released next week, offers solace for both sides in the running war. Five percent of all sedentary Americans declare they will desert to the enemy and take up jogging during 1979. On the other hand, Harris finds that the jogging craze-and growth of interest in all forms of physical exercise-is slowing down. "Involvement will continue to increase," says Harris, "but less rapidly than it has in the past...