Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice that occasionally the waiters cordon the room off, let the girls dash in for a quick peek...
...here." Agrees Garrick Utley, NBC correspondent since 1963: "You learn in two weeks or even two days out here what takes two years anywhere else." CBS Cameraman Smith insists that he wants "to go back as soon as I can -this month if the doctors will let...
...twelve drugs of the same type (prednisone) range from $1.25 to $11 for 30 tablets, he declared: "The taxpayer should not be forced to pay $11 if the $1.25 drug is equally effective. To do this would permit robbery of private citizens with public approval." He asked Congress to let HEW enforce a reasonable price scale for drugs used under Medicare and Medicaid...
...Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when teachers decid ed that a student was not benefiting, they simply let him join conventional classes. Of the first 150 students, 60 failed to complete the program...
Until lately, most Western bankers figured that the creaking monetary system would hold together long enough-perhaps another three years-to let reserves artificially created by the IMF begin to supplement gold's historic role. British devaluation and two subsequent runs on gold have drastically shrunk the transition time. "The monetary system is now in a continuous and drawnout crisis," says Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Last week Reierson added his voice to those demanding that the London gold pool be closed, and that the U.S. limit...