Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercy of oblivion promptly descended on Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and Song of the Grasshopper, three turkeys that trotted to their dooms. Appropriately enough, Garden was about mercy killing of a sort. Dr. Cook has kept God's bucolic little acre of Greenfield Center, Vt., weeded by systematically poisoning mentally retarded children and town skinflints who fight bills for new schools. Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary. What was really scary about the Ira Levin melodrama was that someone produced...
...with a separate financing mechanism. Part A provides that anyone over 65 may have his hospital bills paid out of Social Security Administration funds after the first $40 and for up to 60 days at a time. In Medicare's first few months, hospitals complained that they were kept waiting so long for payment that they were being bankrupted. Now all parties have learned to process the masses of paper more expeditiously, and SSA asserts that it gets a check out in ten days, on the average...
...would rather treat patients free. Some are suspected of holding out (though there can be no proof) because Medicaid pays by check, whereas now they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom has been in dental services, for which there was a huge and largely unrecognized backlog demand. When Medicaid started, New York paid out less than $1,000,000 in a three-month period for welfare recipients' dental care. Now the quarterly...
...time before Sept. 26. By last week, that stock had dropped to $92, enabling the put holder to buy the stock in the market, then exercise his sell option at a $2,050 profit after commissions. By investing in the put instead of selling Fairchild short, the investor kept his outlay down to $1,750 instead of $11,900 and made certain that he could lose no more than the $1,750 no matter how much the stock went up. Though most options are sold to speculators, market tacticians also use them in complex hedging maneuvers to protect paper profits...
...ubiquitous ladies of the night off the streets. Convinced that the girls are a picaresque asset that visiting bankers would want to see, if not buy, the chief of the foreign-capital division struck a deal with the streetwalkers: the girls would be unbothered if they policed themselves and kept their diseased and theft-prone sisters out of action for the week...