Word: healthier
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After a decade of forced feeding, the Indian economy last week was thumped and prodded, measured and weighed by the anxious experts who had put it together. Their verdict: the country, if far from prosperous, was never healthier. Thanks to $24 billion spent on two successive Five-Year Plans, industrial output has nearly doubled, farm production fattened by more than one-third, national income risen 42%; 100.000 new homes are spotted across the Indian landscape, and the life expectancy of the average Indian has been stretched out by five years. The number of universities has grown from...
When a big-city daily dies, what happens to its staff? One day last fall, the question was made painfully pertinent to the 157 editorial hands of Hearst's Detroit Times, which had just sold out to its healthier afternoon rival, the News (TIME, Nov. 21). Stunned by last-minute dismissal notices-some of them delivered by wire at 3 a.m.-the unemployed reporters, deskmen, photographers and copy boys turned unhappily to the job of finding another job. Last week, in a survey prepared for the journalism department of Wayne State University in Detroit, ex-Timesman Donald A. Morris...
...healthier growth areas in the U.S. economy is caring for the sick. In the past 15 years, U.S. hospital admissions have shot up 51% while population has increased only 30%-not because more people are getting sick but because more people can afford, or are guaranteed, treatment. In the next ten years some $17 billion will be spent to build, equip and modernize hospitals. Soaring with this increase is American Hospital Supply Corp., whose aggressive acquisitions and imaginative selling have made it by far the biggest of the 600 companies that supply and equip hospitals. Already A.H.S...
...even conducts the decisive interview before any new employee from janitor to vice president is hired. He some times buys an employee a new suit or pair of shoes to make him more presentable to clients, occasionally passes out golf-club memberships to his top men. "Golf is healthier than nightclubbing," he says. "And it affords time to talk with a client...
...considerable amount of freedom. "It creates dependency--we have to respect technical competence because important desirable effects depend on it." But in return for abandoning our freedom (for example, to treat our own diseases) we obtain some other freedoms, such as the freedom of action which comes from being healthier, he said...