Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Average payments to beneficiaries will rise 13% in 1968, while at the low end of the scale the increase will be 25%. The law provides for additional increments in later years. Medicare benefits will be expanded as well. And although the base on which both employers and employees pay the social security tax rises this year from $6,600 to $7,800, the present tax rate of 4.4% does not begin going up until 1969, when it will be 4.8%. Subsequent increases over two decades will bring the figure...
...last week, however, laboratories had confirmed A-2 as the cause of illness in at least 15 states. Similar evidence mounted in 15 other states and Washington, D.C. In New York City, deaths due to pneumonia, often flu-related, rose to 109 during the last week in December-a rise of 65% over the same week in 1966. Bedded down with the flu himself, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, had expected the death toll to reach only 91 for the week. From London last week came reports that an A-2 epidemic had spread...
...rise of the public university is not merely in buildings, budgets and bodies. It is growing just as sharply in its brainpower. Good students who might once have shunned public institutions are now competing to get in. The University of Massachusetts, for example, had 17,000 applications for this year's freshman class, could take only the best 3,000. Among the 99 members of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, more than 80% of the current enrollment ranked in the top half of their high school classes-and nearly a third were...
...they would rather switch than watch the standard run of series. Other changes stem from the extraordinary popularity of movies. This fall, when NBC begins running feature films on Monday evenings, there will be a prime-time movie on TV every night of the week. What with the steady rise in sports coverage, television may soon be dominated by Hollywood and halfbacks...
...when the economy often holds up its growth temporarily to await the outcome of the voting. Another is the federal surtax, which the panel expects to come and which will affect both profits and personal spending. The most difficult factor to gauge is defense spending, which is due to rise during the year about $7 billion to $80 billion. Were peace to be negotiated in Viet Nam, the economy would swing to a vastly different peacetime basis. In the event of a broader war, not only would defense outlays increase even more, but inflation would switch from a canter...