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...enlist labor in the battle against inflation, the Administration must fight much harder and more effectively on the other fronts than it has so far. There is a hollow ring to calls for businessmen and workers to settle for less so long as the Government keeps pumping up inflation through its unchecked spending. Next year's federal budget deficit, which is now projected to top $50 billion, is at least an improvement on the $60.6 billion that Carter had originally proposed in January, but it is still far too large for an economy in the fourth year of expansion...
After Robert had been mildly sedated and his leg anesthetized, Cardiologist Simon Stertzer inserted a narrow, hollow Teflon tube called a guiding catheter into an artery in the leg (although an arm artery can be used instead). Working the catheter up through the blood vessels, he reached the opening of the obstructed heart artery. Then Stertzer inserted a narrower and more flexible hollow catheter, with a tiny deflated balloon near its tip, through the Teflon tube and into the heart artery itself. Guided by X rays that determined precisely where the artery was blocked, he positioned the balloon exactly...
...worker's raises have become a hollow joke; for him the '70s has been a decade of nearly zero growth in living standards. Weekly wages of the average nonsupervisory employee have jumped 86% since 1967, but because of high inflation and high taxes, real spendable earnings have increased only 2.8%. The squeezed, middle-class homeowner often reaps little or nothing from the rise in value of his house; if he sells, he will have to buy another that probably costs even more for the same or less room. Many of the poor have been denied the opportunity...
...Pentagon insist that the neutron bomb is a warhead and not a bomb at all, but many military experts classify shells, warheads and other explosive weapons that come down on the enemy from the air as bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme and destroy their enimies...
...pongmen pound their hollow white shells on homemade plywood tables in the basement of Richards Hall, a graduate dormitory where the dust is so thick that "any visitor with asthma would choke," team captain Nick Christakos said recently...