Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robbery relative to population has decreased by 30% in the past three decades. On the other hand, rape has tripled. Males are seven times more likely to commit violent crimes than women, but the women are catching up: in five years, arrests of women for crimes of violence rose 62% above 1960 v. 18% for men. From the newest figures, certain other patterns emerge. Despite widespread fear of strangers, most crimes of violence are committed by a member of the family or an acquaintance. The arrest rate for murder among Negroes is ten times that among whites, but most...
...Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, it costs $410 to have a baby, compared with $250 in 1957. At Houston's Methodist Hospital, patients are billed 25% more for anesthesia than in 1962. Everywhere, the story is the same (see graph). While the consumer price index rose 19% in the decade ending last year, U.S. medical costs shot up 42%. Just since 1966, hospital charges have jumped...
...labor force, such automation is not widely in use. Without good planning, improved care seems to require more employees. Since 1946, the number of hospital employees per patient has increased from 1½ to 2½. To hire more employees, hospitals must compete with industry; last year hospital wages rose 20%. And labor costs already make up 62% of hospital budgets...
...that expansion, along with overseas plants in Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Philippines and Austria, and office-supply outlets in 17 states and Canada, has enabled Boise Cascade to escape the lumber industry's traditional dependence on construction for prosperity. Its sales (now 60% derived from pulp and paper) rose from $53 million a decade ago to $489 million in 1966, should reach $700 million this year. Profits grew from $2,000,000 in 1957 to $17 million last year...
Born. To Teddy Kennedy, 35, youngest of the clan, and Joan Kennedy, 30: their third child, second son, making Joe and Rose grandparents for the 26th time; in Boston...