Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's National Health Service offers free medical care from cradle to grave, but increasing numbers of Britons fear they may be in their graves before they reach the end of the interminable queues for services. Seeking an alternative, 2,000,000 Britons now pay for additional private medical insurance. The number has doubled in ten years, and private insurers predict that 5,000,000 people, a tenth of the population of England and Wales, will eventually be covered by their policies...
...Federal Government and the oil industry, were told that spreading straw on top of the water is still one of the best ways to sop up the black tide. But, as Lavon P. Haxby, an expert on oil control, put it: "In an age when we can reach the moon, we should be able to do better than this...
...revered and thoughtful guru, former Episcopal Priest Alan Watts, now living in Sausalito, Calif., argues that church services ought to offer "more opportunity for meditation and spiritual experience." Monsignor Robert Fox, director of New York's Full Circle Associates, is an activist who nonetheless maintains that "you can't reach others without prayer and contemplation...
...from complications that developed as a result of the flu. Health authorities claim to have used older vaccines against it with some success, but Rome's daily Il Messaggero asked: "Who believes you? Anyone can see the epidemic is still gaining force." It is expected to reach its peak next week...
...almost sure to bring about a substantial jump in unemployment. At present, the nation might find such an experience particularly troublesome. A recession could aggravate social unrest. The jobless rates among blacks normally run twice as high as those common whites; among blacks under 25 years old, they often reach five times the overall rate...