Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal is obviously the victim of a long political struggle. The current bill gives the hospital industry several months to voluntarily limit inflation, and imposes mandatory controls only if that effort fails. The mandatory program exempts states that have their own cost containment programs, as well as new or rural hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other facilities that can claim special conditions. About 55 per cent of all hospitals would thus elude these mandatory controls...
...ministers are now under investigation. One of them, Ahmed Sultan, until recently minister of power and electricity, faces charges of accepting $300,000 in bribes from Westinghouse. Khalil's other favorite target is Egypt's sluggish bureaucracy. He has begun decentralizing the system, delegating ministerial authority to rural governors and village headmen...
Among his plans: free and compulsory education for all Egyptians up to high school age, extensive electrification of rural areas, an end to press censorship, restriction on government control of TV and radio. But such plans depend greatly on the Middle East peace negotiations. In some ways, Sadat trusts Khalil to handle these negotiations more than he trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like...
...Eastern Shore region is a poor, rural area where most scholarship programs are unheard of," Cephas, a native of the area, said yesterday. "There is a tremendous untapped human resource down there, which is why I am convinced it will work," he added...
Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...