Word: paradoxity
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...explaining that paradox, Johnson noted that health costs may zoom by 140% in the decade that began in 1965. While the overall cost of living is expected to rise a mere 20% in that span, drug payments are expected to rise by 65%, dental-care bills by 100%, doctors' bills by 160% and general hospital costs by no less than 250%. The President contended that much of the projected increase is unnecessary, and results from an insurance setup that encourages both doctors and patients to choose hospitalization even when less costly forms of care would be equally effective. Also...
...elements within the black community must realize that the rhetoric itself is in many ways an expression of the deep seated feelings of the ghetto. Inflammatory language does fill a genuine need for the people of the ghetto, as promises of black-run cooperative stores can never do. This paradox can only be resolved by the triumph of black power's real goals...
Unhappily, it turns out to be a partial failure, according to evidence presented at a recent Manhattan virology conference. In fact, RSV has once again confronted virologists with the paradox that a vaccine sometimes worsens the dis ease it theoretically prevents...
Finally, there was the enduring paradox of American relations in Asia: the ability of our allies to intimidate the American giant through protestations of weakness. The Vance mission clearly shows the Administration is slow to learn caution in handing out blank checks around the world...
...disapproval of its friends-but not for long, as Britain learned to its dismay when world opinion forced it to retreat from Suez in 1956. It does not follow, however, that when friends agree with a course of action, their aid can be counted on. It is a paradox, says General Alfred M. Gruenther, that "our power tends to hurt the alliance system." The U.S., he points out, "seems so mighty that our smaller allies stand aside...