Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last general argument is that moral decisions will cost money that could otherwise have been spent for academic purposes. But President Bok cannot honestly expect moral choices always to be completely painless. The health of this institution depends on much more than its liquidity. Bok rhetorically asks at the conclusion of his last letter "whether much will truly be lost by the reluctance of academic institutions to exert collective pressure." He, of course, does not believe the price of some amorality would be too high. After all, Harvard only contributes a small amount to the profits of these corporations...
...Global defense expenditures have grown so large that it is difficult to grasp their full dimensions. The overall total is now in excess of $400 billion a year." The nearly $30 billion spent annually on arms research and development is more than "is spent on the problems of energy, health, education and food combined." Does the money buy greater security? McNamara asked. "No. At these exaggerated levels, only greater risk, greater danger, and greater delay in getting on with life's real purposes...
...inaccessibility. He has put off a much needed Cabinet shuffle, given only one press conference in two months, and after an early flurry of legislative innovation, his government seems to be marking time. Two weeks ago Levesque was further embarrassed when House Leader Robert Burns resigned for reasons of health. Before leaving, Burns criticized some of his Cabinet colleagues for being interested only in power and predicted that the government would lose the referendum. "I don't want to be there when it happens," he grumbled...
...Sultan, now 38, has made a remarkable advance toward bringing his country out of the Dark Ages. The three miles of paved highway have grown to 1,305, and there are an additional 8,055 miles of graded road. Oman now has 13 hospitals, twelve health centers and 365 schools. In 1970, the country had two nurses and twelve doctors; the totals today are 624 and 211. Color television and air conditioning are common; new construction is transforming the capital of Muscat into a dusty city of modern banks, hotels and low-cost housing. By and large, British industry...
Americans also need to reclaim some of the provinces of their lives that they have ceded over the years to experts in a variety of fields - in education, health care and child care, for example...