Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype," says Rutgers Urbanologist George Sternlieb. "A few years from now it will be Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis and Akron, and then it will be every older city in the country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings. One physician has been mugged so many times he has hired a professional bodyguard...
Straining to cope with its growing burdens, Newark has been steadily raising taxes-to the point where the rates are now self-defeating. The real estate tax rate, already $7.90 per $100 of assessed valuation, is one of the highest in the nation, and may soon be increased. That is a powerful incentive for middle-class homeowners to flee. The tax on a $20,000 house in Newark is roughly $1,400 a year, about the same amount that a nearby suburbanite pays on a $50,000 home...
...there was no transmission belt between the people and their state and federal government. For this reason the people's participation in state and national governments was bodly limited. But with the coming of political parties the voter turnout jumped to a record high of 80 per cent for the national election...
...angry liberals pressed them hard enough, the plan's administrators could come up with reasonable excuses for including so many affluent patients at a time when the poor are sicker and more desperate. Other health plans, Pollack might say, are famous for their "social conscience," and only 10 per cent of their patients are poor. So if the Harvard plan takes 20 per cent of its patients form Roxbury it must be twice as socially concerned...
...fundamentally this fear of drifting away from the medical mainstream that directs most of the plan's decisions -- including drawing the "poor line" at 20 per cent. In each of their moves, the plan's directors are conscious of a national audience. What they are trying to build is not just a plan for treating 30,000 people in Boston. Instead, they are piecing together a model that they hope can reshape medical systems all across the country...