Word: rate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least as measured by its range, today TV is certainly of age. It captivates an audience that runs to a nightly third of all the men, women and children in America. Images flow out over the population to be absorbed, statisticians insist, at the appalling average rate of 29 hours per week per citizen. The cash flows in. A minute of network prime-time advertising can sell for up to $140,000, or enough to pay the salary of seven or eight high school English teachers for a whole year...
...there is not much saving radiance in the sky. Instead, the air is alive with the sound of lamentation. At various times from various quarters, TV has been accused of raising the crime rate, dropping students' test scores, crippling the imagination, undermining national literacy, and layering American homes with an attention-numbing narcotic. The charges go way back. They were first raised by long-suffering parents and teachers who simply watched the TV viewing of children under their care and came to what they felt were grim, self-evident conclusions. Then the argument shifted a bit to the amount...
...physicians' fees, lab tests). That amounted to 5.9% of total spending for all goods and services. Since then the bill has increased by 429%. This year the total is expected to reach $206 billion, or 9.1% of the gross national product. The White House estimates that at the present rate of increase, medical costs will double every five years, a rise far in excess of inflation. Says Dr. Richard Corlin, president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, with only mild hyperbole: "We are now in a position to spend the entire national bud get on medical tests and procedures...
...Electronic fetal monitoring is used in many hospital maternity units during labor and delivery. A sonar-like ultrasound system keeps track of the baby's heart rate, and an electrically wired belt across the mother's abdomen notes uterine contractions. Electrodes are attached to the baby's head to get an electrocardiogram. Blood samples for analysis may be drawn from the baby's scalp. The object: to detect fetal problems early enough for physicians to intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate...
...years; of heart failure; in New York City. Son of the founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Scherman was a prodigy who read music before words, studied with Otto Klemperer, and used his personal wealth to create his own half-size orchestra. Though considered a second-rate conductor, Scherman was admired as an explorer of new music and rediscoverer of such forgotten compositions as Berlioz's L 'Enfance du Christ. He premiered more than 100 orchestral works...