Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resuscitate the hospital cost containment bill, which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap in gasoline prices. Carter originally asked for a 9% ceiling on annual hospital cost increases. Compromise bills have now been proposed, but all of them face an uphill fight. Complains a congressional insider: "The White House guys came out of Camp David and think...
...caucus battle, his chilly reception and the country's problems left him with no real sense of victory. "It's a hard job," he said, "and I have no illusions whatsoever." Aloof, autocratic and given to occasional outbursts of temper, Botha is essentially a party man, who rose through the ranks as leader of the relatively small western Cape, still the historically sacred region of Afrikaner origins. He is not the patient negotiator that Vorster was. But he has proved to be a shrewd organizer. After becoming Defense Minister in 1966, he characteristically turned the ministry into...
...Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year-not all of it, of course, on recreational...
...Vientiane, once flourishing centers of sin-like the notorious White Rose Café-have been closed down by the puritanical Pathet Lao government. On Rue Setthathirath more than half the shops are shuttered tightly, though not the Large Soviet cultural center on the corner. Rusting hulks of cars and trucks lie at the side of the roads leading out of the city. Even the front garden of the old Royal Palace has fallen into a state of near total disrepair-the King was sent to a reeducation camp...
...past, housing collapsed when interest rates rose, because mortgage lenders ran out of cash. Depositors would take their money out of savings and loan associations, which are limited by law as to how much interest they can pay, and put it into Treasury bills and other higher-yielding paper. But lately mortgage lenders have developed new financial gimmicks that enable them to compete for funds, even when money gets tight. One innovation: high-interest certificates of deposit (CDs), with a yield that is one-quarter of a point above the Treasury bill rate at the time of purchase. In July...