Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress two weeks ago, embraces none of the Health Commission's recommendations. Instead it will protect the voluntary health insurance companies from unusual losses due to chronic or epidemic diseases--a plan similar to the government's financial safeguard for banks. Insurance companies could then afford to take on poorer risks--aged people with such ailments as rhemmatism, arthritis, tuberculosis, and heart diseases. But the program would lower rates little, leaving nearly one-half the nation unable to afford protection. And the Eisenhower plan makes no provision for increasing the flow of doctors from medical schools...
...American plan here since New York probably has greater variety of foreign and good American restaurants than any other city in the world. For night entertainment most of the hotels offer big name bands for dancing, but its best to figure on being ten of fifteen dollars poorer when you leave...
...brought new problems to big cities, not only for businessmen but for city officials. As trade suffers, the city becomes relatively more expensive to run efficiently. New York City alone has lost 500,000 upper-and middle-income-bracket families to the suburbs since 1943; those who remain are poorer, less able to pay taxes for expensive city services. Lower tax returns, in turn, mean more crowding and more slums. Says Detroit City Planner Paul Reid: "Newcomers, for the most part, are in the lower economic level. As they settle in the city, others who have attained medium or high...
...committee refused the 25 cent fine because it was characterized by what Metcalf termed "economic discrimination." Such a fine would mean little to many students financially well off, Metcalf said. Only the poorer student, he continued, would be affected by the proposed change in the fine system...
Roosevelt had a poor opinion of Wilson ("a scholarly, acrid pacifist of much ability and few scruples") and a poorer one of the Democratic Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ("an amiable, windy creature who knows almost nothing"). When World War I began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the invasion of Belgium as a desperate threat to the fabric of international law. and denounced Wilson's "spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service...