Word: millions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation in 1967 of the "Committee for the Defense...
...dying before age 35 is four times the U.S. average. In this group, adults have four times as much disabling heart disease, ten times as much visual impairment, six times as much mental illness, mental retardation and nervous disorder. This one-fifth constitutes the nation's poor-40 million Americans, by the Government's admittedly rough estimates...
First-Hand Study. To correct this imbalance, a band of determined medical men, supported by funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, has launched a counterattack on medical poverty in several severely depressed areas. The OEO has allocated $94 million to finance 51 neighborhood health centers, of which 33 are already operating and 18 are being organized. Unless it is caught in a budget squeeze, the OEO will start ten more centers early next year...
...true costs, is the most expensive part of medical care. For these 54 families alone, the second-year saving in hospital costs may have been $10,000 to $12,000. Impressed after a tour of Columbia Point, Senator Edward Kennedy was able to get another $50 million added to the OEO appropriation. But no matter how far the OEO expands its health centers, they will not be enough to solve the nationwide medical problems of the poor. The effort to supply health care for maximum social impact will cost many more millions, and perhaps billions...
...Then, with 65 seconds remaining, the Jets slipped ahead 32-29. But the Raiders struck back swiftly, connecting on a 22-yd. pass play that put them within scoring range. Now there were only 50 seconds left in the game. The Oakland stadium erupted like Mauna Loa. Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case of unsportsmanlike conduct, especially since the Raiders, in those last few TV-less seconds, went on to score...