Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the needed changes is equally important. Contrary to what Westerners think, the majority of citizens in these countries have found their lives tolerable, at least until recently. While it is true that they grumble about long lines and shortages, workers also appreciate guaranteed employment and low prices for life's necessities -- housing, medical care, basic foods. Their education and everything they have heard from the media have led them to expect that they could enjoy economic benefits equal to those of capitalism with none of the risks or pain...
While the ruling could force firms to give California customers up to $4 billion in rebates and rate cuts, few checks will go out soon. The reason: the court held that insurers may receive exemptions from the rollbacks if they can prove that the new rates would be too low to assure a "fair and reasonable" profit...
Egypt has nowhere near enough money to pay for such an ambitious restoration program by itself. But it could generate significantly more revenues with one simple move: raising the laughably low entrance fees charged tourists. Tombs, for example, are often free, and visitors to the pyramids are charged only about $1.25. There are plans to double that fee, but it could be doubled again and still remain a bargain...
...state of Oregon and California's Alameda County, which includes Oakland, are on the verge of taking that seemingly drastic step. In April, the Oregon senate passed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to 86,000 low-income people previously not covered. There would, however, be limits to the care they could expect. The measure, now before the lower house, would also establish a commission of experts and consumers to rank health services in order of importance; the legislature would then decide which to finance. Oregon has already set up committees of doctors, nurses and social workers to & establish...
SOME of Egan's remarks in the last week have also brought the plane of the debate around the overseers election to a new low. He said that Tutu, who has for years called on Harvard to divest its remaining $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock, "has absolutely no interest in running Harvard." And he called those on last year's alternate slate, none of whom were elected to the Board, "second-rate' candidates...