Word: scale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisors' and proctors' evaluation of "what kind of person this young man is," on a scale ranging from 1 ("outstanding") to 5 ("having troubles...
...peace with Israel. Last week the two sides reached an uneasy, fragile-and probably impermanent-understanding. Lebanon will release arrested rioters and drop charges against them in return for a fedayeen promise not to bring on Israeli retaliation, either by firing across the border or by launching large-scale raids from Lebanese territory. Lebanon has appealed also to its Moslem neighbors for a summit meeting of the Arab League, now a distinct possibility, since other Arab governments are as aware as the Lebanese of the growing political threat of the fedayeen...
Futile Illegality. Almost immediately, HEW officials in Washington said that New Mexico would not be readmitted to the program at the proposed lower level. A state, they said, cannot arbitrarily scale down Medicaid assistance below certain minimum requirements set in Washington. Five services are mandatory: in-patient and outpatient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. The New Mexicans, said HEW, were demanding Medicaid on their own terms, which were not only illegal but self-defeating. Although the state might have saved $1,000,000 by quitting Medicaid and rejoining it with a less...
...trend of the 500 underscores the growing importance of "economies of scale." Size clearly offers the opportunity for more efficient use of equipment and greater market clout...
...units a year to U.S. housing starts, which are limping along at an annual rate of 1,500,000 and have been declining for three months. Named Operation Breakthrough, the plan calls for states and cities to pool their separate, federally subsidized projects into large-scale "mass markets." The Secretary hopes to attract giant corporations into housing construction and to wring economies from volume production. Localities would have to remove building codes, zoning and other barriers that fragment today's housing market, inhibit innovations and raise prices...