Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this, though: I care greatly for this University. It has in the last four years greatly broadened the intellectual horizons of many, including myself. It has furthermore, helped us all to grow as individuals, making the challenges of the future less foreboding. However, I refuse to believe that the continuing fulfillment of its mission must come at the expenses of the support of oppression and injustice in South Africa. It may take some financial prodding, but the University must be given a moral pinch or else it will continue to help prolong the tragic nightmare in South Africa. For this...
...litmus test" of whether a legislator is really serious about fighting inflation. The bill, Carter insists, would save the country "some $53 billion" over the next five years the amount by which he estimates medical costs would increase if no limits were enacted. The Congressional Budget Office is less optimistic; it pegs the likely savings at $31.7 billion. But adds one of the office's analysts: "That's still a lot of bucks to save...
Beyond the politicians' remedies, there are more immediate, if less comprehensive steps that the profession and the various insurance plans already in force could take to control costs...
...bypass for the blood. Last year more than 80,000 such operations were performed. The average cost: $10,000 to $15,000. Despite its growing use, the procedure is highly controversial. Though it relieves patients from severe pain, there is. heated debate over whether it is better than less expensive and less risky medicinal treatments in prolonging life...
...praise of China on this latest, ten-day trip to five cities. The five columns he wrote portray China as beset by ideological and economic confusion, and disappointed with what Peking perceives as the U.S.'s unwillingness to stand up to the Soviet Union. Kraft did far less independent wandering than on his previous trips, but visited more museums and historic sites. "This was the first time that I bathed in the sea of Chinese history," he says. "I had the almost existential sense of these 6,000 years of rising civilization in China...