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...what to do to fight the staph, the authorities give unanimous advice: ¶ Clean up the hospitals. ¶ Make doctors and nurses scrub up better, use heavier masks, take far more care in many details-e.g., changing their shoes when moving between surgical and nonsurgical areas...
LIABILITY INSURANCE rates for autos will go up again this year, as much as 30% in some states. Reason: higher car-repair costs, medical expenses and court awards in damage cases caused heavier underwriting loss...
...security program is "of transcendent importance" to the U.S.'s security. To discard or drastically slash the program, the President warned, would bring about a "basic impairment of free world power" and a "crumbling'' of the U.S.'s "strategic overseas positions." The results would be heavier defense spending, higher taxes, bigger draft calls and "ultimately, a beleaguered America, her freedoms limited by mounting defense costs, and almost alone in a world dominated by international Communism...
...Socialists promptly blasted the government for laying the added burden on the whole population, meaning that most of it would be borne by the well. Deliberately so, said Heathcoat-Amory: the government believed this was fairer than putting a still heavier burden on the sick, who are least able to bear...
...committee conceded that the industry at first tried to put out effective filters. But when smokers found the cigarettes too weak, "first, the filters were loosened to permit a larger number of smoke particles to get through. Second, the blend was changed to include more of the stronger, heavier-bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly...