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...Hospital Administrator Larry Mclntyre, who developed the plan with the institution's chief of staff, Dr. Gustav Bansmer. "But there are other times when a lot of them are just standing around, so when we utilize that time there is no added cost." To take advantage of these slack periods, the hospital requires patients to make appointments in advance...
...suspicion must exist, of course, that the constant emphasis on corruption is like those "crime waves" that newspapers used to discover in slack periods when no other story dominated the head lines. Any story with however tenuous a "Watergate angle" has a better chance of making the front page. In this effort, journalism may have had a collaborator in Richard Nixon. Indeed, as the notes on those 18 minutes of missing tape show, the White House's first response to Watergate was to invoke public relations to "top" the embarrassing news: "We should be on the attack - for diversion...
...what the balance between spending and revenues actually is, but by what it would be if the full-employment target were reached. Events in fiscal 1973 demonstrated how important a miscalculation can be. Partly because unemployment was higher than 4%, economists believed that there was a good deal of slack in the economy. The Government accordingly permitted a budget deficit of $14.3 billion in fiscal 1973, and it proved too much of a stimulus for an economy that was already straining close to its limits. The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced...
...terminology is so slack in this area that it grants the president virtually dictatorial powers," Norton added...
...over: the Alaska North Slope oilfield had just been proved and was expected to be powering cars by 1972, drilling had started on a large offshore field in California's Santa Barbara Channel, and coal production was still going strong and was expected to take some of the slack from oil. Within months, all the promises were reversed: environmentalists stopped the Alaska pipeline, which was only recently given final go-ahead; a giant oil spill forced a shutdown of the Santa Barbara fields; and environmental and safety laws slowed coal production. "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong...