Word: letup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-speed course toward financial disaster. Inflation, the high cost of new medical technology and the rapid growth of the nation's elderly population are draining the resources of the program, which pays the hospital expenses of people 65 and over. By 1988, if there is no letup in the rise in medical costs, Medicare's $8.8 billion hospital insurance trust fund will be depleted. By 1995 it would be in the red by as much as $400 billion. Last March, in a desperate effort to stem the hemorrhaging of Medicare dollars, Congress, working with the Administration, approved...
...office. His replacement will be chosen by the 145-member central committee elected last week, with the Rev. Heinz Joachim Held of West Germany, 55, as its new presiding officer. For Held and Potter's successor, the council's delicate balancing act will undoubtedly continue without letup. -By Richard N. Ostling
...most visible candidates for retraining are the roughly 2 million so-called displaced workers, many of whom once worked in basic industries. Most have been displaced by new technology or foreign competition, and there are few signs of a letup on either front. Experts have estimated that every year from now on at least 1 million people, and perhaps as many as 2 million, will be similarly displaced. Despite the attention and publicity given older workers laid off by declining industries, their options remain almost unrelievedly bleak...
...runup in health care. Last week the Labor Department reported that June unemployment held firm at 9.5% of the labor force, continuing an employment slump that has helped to ease inflationary pressures throughout much of the economy. Even so, health-care costs have just kept on surging ahead without letup. Nearly 10% of the U.S.'s gross national product is now spent on medical care of one sort or another, compared with only...
...semisolid mass then disappears for a day; it is flash-frozen at -10° F so that large ice crystals do not form, and then it is tempered for a few hours in a freezer 20° warmer. These days Ben and Jerry keep their machine going without letup, but often in the first months of their proprietorship, they were forced to hang up the dreaded international no-more-ice-cream sign: a red circle containing an ice-cream cone with a slash through...