Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...district chief, has been converted into a campground for the new cadres, looks like an unsupervised fraternity house with its clutter of cots and guitars. The new district chief, Mai Nhu Manh, a graduate of the National Institute of Administration, boasts only a corner bed with a mosquito net. Says a young colleague, Law Graduate Doan Thanh Liem: "The only thing that is important to us is a change in mentality, a sense of community." Only one American, a 24-year-old named Charles Sweet, is advising the youths, and he was not allowed into the district for three months...
...just what Medicare covers. Many are disappointed to learn that they must still pay the first $40 of hospital bills, for instance, and that Medicare does not provide such items as eyeglasses. Some patients over 65 are also finding their gross doctor bills going up, even while the net cost to them may fall. A New York Times survey last week indicated that physicians accustomed to charging reduced fees to care for older patients of limited means are now asking their regular rates. Under the optional Part B of Medicare, subscribed to by more than 17 million persons...
...responsible for only a small part of the rising price of food. Figures from his own department contradict him. They show that since 1964, farmers have actually raised their cut of the housewife's grocery dollar from 37? to 40?; they also show that average farm-family net income has gone from $3,642 to $4,785 in the past two years...
Gold now constitutes 86% of all French reserves, compared with 73% at the end of 1964. Moreover, the government is squirreling away the precious metal at such a rate as to account for the entire net U.S. gold drain so far this year. Because France lost millions when the British devalued the pound in 1949, De Gaulle mistrusts keeping much of his country's reserves in either pounds or dollars. More than that, attacking the dollar helps him to reduce U.S. influence inside and outside France...
...plan. It has privately asked, however, that the University buildings be protected. The Harvard Planning office contemplates a study of the area to determine the type of construction necessary to shield the buildings; apparently, little work on the study has been done this summer. The start of construction is net planned before...