Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spur to Inflation. Even Medicare, passed in 1965 to lessen the economic impact of illness on the aged, has helped to push up the costs overall. The program provides broad medical coverage to an estimated 20 million Americans, most of whom would be otherwise unable to obtain insurance. But it has also worsened inflation by allowing over-generous payments for the care provided, increasing the demand for services without enlarging the supply...
...exchange for our precious natural resources, which we obtain by stripping our national forests and ravishing our Appalachian Mountains for coal, we are sent a bunch of consumer junk, and we still end up with a billion-dollar-per-year deficit in the balance of payments...
...small lobbying operation called the Urban Coalition Action Council. Because the Urban Coalition is a tax-exempt organization, the $200,000 needed each year to run the Action Council had to be borrowed from individuals and corporations as non-deductible tax money, money which is extremely difficult to obtain. As the council grew funding fell away, and Gardner repeatedly had to call on friends for emergency funds. After his experience with the Action Council, Gardner realized that for his present, broader venture, he was going to need a little money from a lot of people. Late last spring...
...made no attempt to resist arrest for violating city segregation ordinances. Still, in an event which compressed past and future into the liquid nugget of the present, her stand echoed the tradition of subtle resistance that had characterized the efforts black people have made to obtain justice in America-the quiet violence of ground glass in the master's soup-while simultaneously conveying the continuing injustice and simple pain of the present, Rosa Parks had made her point: NO MORE. She would not be moved. It was a supremely tangible expression, as plain and physical as the way in which...
...finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua, he is taking a spectrographic kit, which he designed to measure the energy that foods produce. His concern is "human ecology": how communities obtain and use their food. Making no apologies for his work's lack of popular relevance, he says simply, "I am doing this because I enjoy...