Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of the ruinous polls, where is the McGovern America? McGovern apparently commands a majority of only the college young, the blacks and the Jews. But the McGovern constituency, actual and potential, is not a matter of race, economic class or education. Like Nixon, McGovern has support among millionaires, blue-collar workers, suburbanites?not nearly so much as the President of course. But it may be that as an idea, an instinct, the McGovern phenomenon is more wide spread than the polls indicate. "In a broad sense," writes Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "the election of 1972 will be the politics...
Harvard had three chances in the final quarter to close the gap. On the first shot, Stoekel was sacked for a ruinous 15 yard loss after another sensational Wheeler run had put the Crimson in scoring range. The second time. Stoekel threw an interception after Wheeler, his intended receiver, had been bumped coming out of the backfield. And finally. Harvard's last gasp a 12 play, 69 yard, two-minute drill drive, died when Stoekel was hit from behind and fumbled...
...wistfully, Humphrey added: "Well, these new people?they're establishment now. It happens fast. We'll see how they like it." Between now and November, McGovern faces the task not only of defeating Richard Nixon but also of keeping together enough of the old Democratic coalition to prevent a ruinous shattering...
...with the U.S. Postal Service over a scheduled rise in second-class mail rates. It was the publishers' turn to lodge "exceptions" to a hearing examiner's report that had upheld the Postal Service proposals. The industry views the increase of some 150% over five years as ruinous (TIME, Jan. 10) and the Magazine Publishers Association is arguing for a phased increase of 50% over five years...
...Ruinous Rates. The annual hospital charge for in-patient dialysis averages about $25,000. New York Hospital's newly opened Rogosin Kidney Disease Treatment Center, which operates 14 units (and treated former U.N. Under Secretary-General Ralph Bunche until his death last week), charges $200 per treatment; hospitals in the Boston area charge anywhere from $148 to $337 but bill separately for doctors' services...