Word: needed
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...that federal research is not intrinsically bad is not to say that its presence in the university has not caused problems. The assertion that good education requires research contains a basic truth which has in some cases been overplayed in much the same way that the need for "national defense" has been used to justify a number of dubious practices. The net effect of this research on Harvard is something I am not qualified to judge. I wish only to say that selective reductions and adjustments in the amount and balance of research which might be suggested by a sober...
...also subsidize the convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days in an approved nursing home. In most states Medicaid picks up the bills for the low-income aged who need still longer stays...
...homes has almost doubled in the past eight years to 750,000 but less than half are in homes that meet such Medicare standards as fireproofing and staff nursing services. The current additions of 90,000 beds a year can take care of only one-third of the rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal funds. Investors have rushed to buy shares in the more than 50 chains that have gone public...
...that he will open schools to train nursing-home personnel. Such efforts would increase costs, of course, perhaps enough to hasten the shakeout period that in any new business follows the opening era of heady growth. That would be all to the good. Investors as well as prospective patients need to know which of the chains, behind their sparkling fronts, have developed an ability to earn a profit while meeting exacting standards. Meanwhile, those selecting either nursing-home beds or nursing-home stocks must choose with great care...
...intelligent reader, that lame dog who often feels the need for help over styles, will find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each...