Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters may rebel, thus clearing the driveway for Hoffa's onslaught against A.F.L. power; but if he fights the bill, he will be helping Hoffa to save his own neck...
...read with great interest your recent article on commuters at Harvard. I went to M.I.T. '30 and while I lived in Monday through Friday, I went home every weekend to save money, and had practically no social life. I was a sort of a "demi-com-muter...
...worst features of the present "needs" test, Toepfer remarked, is that it can penalize the thrifty. If a family scrimps and sacrifices to save money for the children's education, it may show less "need" for assistance than the family which spends most of its available income on a better house or automobile...
...years ago, the Aldine taxpayers' association got full control of the seven-man school board, and nothing but penny-pinching grief has resulted since. The Aldine district (pop. 45,000) has had three school superintendents in two years, turned over 9% of its students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after their paychecks stopped last month. Aldine's teachers quit their jobs and the schools shut down entirely...
...overconfident of germ-killing wonder drugs are living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections and deaths from...