Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the Federal Government matches highway funds by 92% to 8%, the shortage at the state level could eventually cost Idaho $5,000,000, or ten miles of interstate highway. But there is still Lake Bowl. Though Turner's restaurant was closed upon seizure, the alley is yielding a 6 1/2? profit to a special state trust fund for every line bowled. At that rate, it will take 7,451,-182 lines of bowling to recoup the loss -about ten lines each for every man, woman and child in Idaho, or almost 18 years of around-the-clock play...
...March, State Budget Chief Waldo Anton (who has since resigned) persuaded the legislature to avoid an expected deficit by canceling Medicaid. He had been told by regional officers of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare that New Mexico could always rejoin the program later, at a level of services consistent with available money...
Futile Illegality. Almost immediately, HEW officials in Washington said that New Mexico would not be readmitted to the program at the proposed lower level. A state, they said, cannot arbitrarily scale down Medicaid assistance below certain minimum requirements set in Washington. Five services are mandatory: in-patient and outpatient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. The New Mexicans, said HEW, were demanding Medicaid on their own terms, which were not only illegal but self-defeating. Although the state might have saved $1,000,000 by quitting Medicaid and rejoining it with a less...
...easy entry on the boy-meets-girl plot level, Nabokov indulges in a tale about Van Veen and his half sister Ada Veen. They fall in love at the respective ages of 14 and twelve and begin an energetic sex life in the nooks and dells of the family's rural estate. Over the years, their floating orgy suffers prolonged periods of inactivity. In their old age, however, Van and Ada reunite and mate?now in a highly figurative way?melding into an unbeing that Nabokov calls Vaniada. Licensed allusion hunters will find that Vanadis is an epithet for Freya...
...foreshadow a boom followed by a severe deflation later in the 1970s." Convinced that sensible Government policy will avoid such a crisis, he estimates that inflation will average 2% during the decade. Tending to reinforce his assumption, such economic barometers as industrial production and personal income have begun to level out under the growing pressure of high taxes, tight money and a budget surplus...