Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes from inevitable--and desirable--sources. The ceaseless stream of marvels that medical researchers produce certainly save more lives. But they also gobble more dollars in the process. And the other major component of the hospital cost increase--higher wages for cooks, janitors, and the other prosaic workers who help care for the patients -- helped solve another obvious social need. The semi-sweatshop laber practices of the 1950's hospitals had to end; unfortunately, ending them meant hiking hospital charges another step...
...unpopular speaker at an AMA convention in 1966 said, "To speak of the United States as having any kind of medical care when many people can get no care at all. Until we can give everyone some part of the product, we can take little comfort in the help we give a few people...
...Atma began as a theatre without a base in a community without a theatre. Samshak hoped that he and the community could help one another, but both of them needed something more than the other could provide. The South End's cultural base could not subsidize the Atma as a suburban community might have, and any attempt at local season ticket sales proved impossible. In addition, the Atma immediately encountered the community's inherent hostility to outside intrusion...
...four other major steel firms showed no real opposition to the merger. "The other steel companies have become strong enough to withstand any kind of competition," explained Hosai Hyuga, president of Sumitomo Metal Industries. Indeed, some competitors are counting on the trend to concentration in steel to help bring an end to the wild price fluctuations that have kept profits at a low 2% to 3% in recent years...
...broad reach of the Godfather's influence. It is a mark of his power that he commands fierce loyalties because he treats his petitioners with respect-though they range from an obscure paisano seeking revenge for a damaged daughter to a famous Italian-American crooner who needs help to branch out into acting and producing...