Word: itness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOOD. The Department of Labor food-price index jumped 5% from January to October. In Pittsburgh, the price of eggs almost doubled overnight from 43? to 83? per dozen. The price of pork chops in Boston increased from 99? to $1.39. One shopper in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mrs. Richard Davis...
MEDICAL CARE AND PHARMACEUTICALS. In the year's first ten months, the price of medical care-doctors' bills, hospital services and drugs-rose by 5%. In Boston, a hospital bed could cost $85 a day, $10 more than last year, and the price of dental care advanced from...
ENTERTAINMENT. Movies were more expensive, up 25? per ticket in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million...
Friedman is a man totally devoted to ideas?isolating them in pure form, expressing them in uncompromising terms and following them wherever they may lead. His basic philosophy is simple and unoriginal: personal freedom is the supreme good?in economic, political and social relations. What is unusual is his consistency...
Faith in the free market has caused Friedman to condemn many Establishment institutions as monopolies. His targets include the New York Stock Exchange?in his view, a brokers' commission-fixing cartel?and the public-school system. He contends that the Government should issue vouchers that parents could cash at any...