Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appendicitis are missed (some with fatal results) and so many heart attacks are misdiagnosed as indigestion, the gun-shy doctor freely orders batteries of tests to reinforce his diagnosis. With so much medical care now at least partially covered by some form of insurance, few doctors bother to reckon what these tests will cost...
Untapped Deposits. The Government is also tripling the amount of leasing for offshore drilling along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Geologists reckon that large untapped deposits lie off the coasts of Long Island, northern Florida and elsewhere. Leasing has been slowed by fierce opposition from residents, who fear that their shore fronts will be ruined by big black derricks on the blue horizon, by the clutter of docking facilities and possible oil spills. Even if all opposition vanished, it would take three to five years to find and drill new wells offshore. A surer way to expand domestic sources would...
Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, thought it might be nice to put new windows in Massachusetts Hall. But he did not reckon with the power of the Cambridge Common Historical Commission, and Hall's miscalculation may cost Harvard...
Just about a year ago, the University thought it might be nice to provide university-restricted phones located outside the Yard dorms and Houses. But Harvard did not reckon with a faculty computer, and that wayward computer may cost Ma Bell a bundle in unpaid long distance calls...
...opposition plot fails to reckon with the virtually certain response of Allende's dedicated proletarian supporters. The 1.4 million members of the General Confederation of Workers and other Allende partisans would undoubtedly mount a general strike and take to the barricades on behalf of their leader. The specter of civil war would most likely bring in its wake a military coup...