Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there. Either they have been admitted for what are really diagnostic procedures, to gain insurance coverage, or they are past the acute stage of their illness and should be in some sort of convalescent or other extended-care facility, in which the costs would be 40% or 50% less...
...anyway, with so many better possibilities around? As one possible successor, Lockard proposes the oriental tree shrew, which is readily tamed, breeds promiscuously throughout the year and, on the evolutionary map, lies nearer to man than does the rat. To focus on the rat, when less than 1% of all species has ever been impounded in a laboratory, says Lockard, is like examining only the earth and then generalizing about the universe...
...delights of "carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic, "round-robin" fighters share a too pessimistic view that they cannot change either themselves or their relationship. Insensitive to possible compromises, they are trapped in the stalemate of "God, how many times have we been through all this before?" and the tune-out of "Here we go again...
...relentlessly eat into their real income. Inflation is reflected in price rises that reached an annual rate of 4.7% in December. It is particularly burdensome for the poor, who are least able to adjust to the ever higher cost of goods and services. By making U.S. products costlier and less competitive on world markets, it has also hurt the nation's bal ance of payments. Inflation's grip is so tenacious that it will undoubtedly take all of the Government's weapons and will to curtail it for any sustained period...
...public. The 10% tax surcharge shows signs of reducing some consumer demands; retail sales have rolled along on a plateau since last fall. The federal budget is expected to shift from last year's deficit of $25 billion to a small surplus in fiscal 1969, resulting in far less Government-generated economic demand. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board has moved to tighten the money supply. After growing at an annual rate of more than 7% in late 1968, the supply rose at a 3.7% rate in January, and is expected to show even slower growth in February...