Word: organisms
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...March 1867, James A. Garfield, then a Congressman from Ohio, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to create a United States Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child...
...Sweden, where the government provides free medical service, health costs have risen from 9.5% of G.N.P. in 1974 to 11.3% last year. As in Germany, the government is pressing for a hold-down; among other things, Sweden routinely denies expensive organ transplants to people over 70?a cruel but necessary form of rationing. Britain's National Health Service has done a better job of holding down costs; medical outlays as a percentage of G.N.P. (5.6% at last count, in 1977) have been fairly stable. But there has been a price to pay. The nation is suffering from a doctor shortage...
James Higbe--organ recital, Busch--Reisinger Museum...
Benefit Concert for Boston Archdiocesan Choir School--Works of Vivaldi, Handel and BACS graduates; Boston Archdiocesan Choir, St. Paul Men's Schola, BACS Handbell Choir, Cambridge Festival Orchestra, John Dunn, organ; St. Paul Church, Bow and Arrow...
Dale Shifler--organ. Busch-Reisinger Museum...