Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsory national health insurance went into effect in Sweden, replacing voluntary plans which (with state aid) had covered 65% of the population. To extend coverage to all citizens, the state will now triple its payments, to $150 million a year, and will raise the money by an unpopular hike in liquor taxes. Unlike the British system, which foots the entire doctor's bill, Sweden's plan will pay only 75% and calls for direct contributions by individuals (a man earning $2,000 will pay $36 to insure his family). Costly drugs will be free and many prescriptions will...
...inter-city hike to the Business School parking lot is certainly not a "reasonable distance." Any number of undergraduates have preferred to risk an occasional parking ticket. For these law-dodgers, DeGuglielmo notes, passages of the ruling will mean the end of "violating the criminal laws of the city of Cambridge." It will also mean a saving in money and shoe leather for those who must trudge to the Business School...
...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...
Laura Fermi's book. Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press; $4) starts with a hike outside Rome in 1924, when she met "a short-legged young man . . . with rounded shoulders and neck craned forward." Fermi was only 22, but already a brilliant physicist. Laura, 16, considered him "pretty...
...issue revolved around a company demand for a no-strike clause. The face-saving solution: if the union asks for a wage hike next year and does not get it, it may strike, but the company can terminate its contract if the union exercises that right. In case of a wildcat strike, the company will ask the union if it supports the action. If it does, the union can be sued; if it does not, the employees can be fired...