Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help doctors raise their prescription skills, the Lee committee recommended federal financial support for expanded teaching about drugs in medical schools. It also proposed publication of a national drug compendium in which all lawfully available drugs would be listed, along with their effects, both good and bad. And it advocated compilation of "objective guidelines" to help doctors tailor their prescriptions to the patient's needs...
Hoping to Help. His skill on the court took Ashe into the best clubs, but all too often club members mistook him for a waiter and hollered: "Hey, boy, bring me a drink, will you?" At first Ashe swallowed the insults. But lately he finds himself growing blacker and more militant-on the court, as well...
...Ashe may well turn pro when he gets out of the Army next February; there are rumors that he already has been offered a $100,000 contract. In the meantime, he is looking ahead to December's Davis Cup Challenge Round in Australia, when he hopes to help take back the cup that the U.S. has not won since 1963. "It's nice to hear the announcer say 'Point-Ashe,' " he admits, but Davis Cup competition is something else again. "I'd rather hear 'Point-United States...
Technically Insolvent. The aid package involves a fundamental if delicately controlled change in the world's intricate monetary system. Other nations hold pounds and dollars, along with gold, as reserves to help underpin the value of their own currencies, using them to bankroll trade and settle international accounts. British pounds constitute the main reserve asset for the 66-member sterling area, which consists of British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus Ireland, several Arab and a few Asian states. When Britain devalued the pound last November, the value of these other countries' reserves fell 14.3% overnight...
...will have to compensate their sterling allies for most of their losses. The bankers intend to give the British economy time to recover. If it does, the pound could possibly thrive again as a center of international finance. Even if it does not, a diminished role for sterling may help avert some of sterling's recurrent crises...