Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administer an antibiotic immediately on the theory that it might help. Though Tkach declined to identify the medicine, it was probably erythromycin or one of the tetracyclines, which are frequently prescribed for Mycoplasma pneumonia. From X rays, he concluded that only the lower lobe of Nixon's right lung was inflamed...
Died. Robert Ryan, 63, ruggedly good-looking actor with a talent for violent roles; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Among Ryan's best performances in a screen career that spanned 30 years and some 90 films: the aging, failing prizefighter in The Set-Up (1949) and an anti-Semitic Marine in Crossfire (1947). Onstage he scored more recent triumphs in a Broadway revival of The Front Page (1969), in which he played the cynical managing editor, Walter Burns, and as the father in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night...
Along with farm subsidies, shipbuilding subsidies and harbor projects, another well-intentioned federal-aid program can be added to the long list of those that have degenerated into pork-barrel giveaways. It is the black-lung program, which is financed by the U.S. taxpayer. Designed to compensate the families of coal miners, dead or alive, who were victims of the debilitating coal-dust disease, the program has become a much-abused boondoggle...
...first black-lung bill was signed in 1969, but eligibility requirements were so severe that last year the President and Congress got together on a liberalizing amendment. The election-year amendment was enthusiastically backed by many Congressmen from the coal states-notably Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky-and by President Nixon. Initial cost estimates varied greatly, from $32 million a year to $380 million a year. Now the benefits are being paid to about 475,000 miners, widows and other beneficiaries at a rate of $52 million a month...
...Government-until recently were lax about dust-control standards in the mines. But Donald Davis, an official at national Social Security headquarters, charges that he has been pressured by superiors into approving benefits for "frauds." These range from twice-married widows collecting two separate benefit checks to "black-lung-disabled" healthy young men who worked in the mines only briefly. Prodded by Davis, the General Accounting Office issued a report citing abuses, though its criticism was milder than Davis...