Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telegraph nets and power plants. Capital begets capital because it leads to production. That creates jobs and income, which in turn produce more capital and more demand for it. The Atlantic Council of the U.S.-a group of U.S. Government and business leaders-estimates that, in the ten-year span ending in 1976, North America and Western Europe will need $1 trillion to expand pro duction. They will also need the funds to open new and costly programs to assault pollution and slums, exploit the resources of the oceans, and perform other basic tasks to make the civilized world more...
Princeton had one good stretch, early in the fourth quarter. Trailing 66-49, the Tigers outscored Harvard 8-2 in a two-minute span to trail by nine with plenty of time...
Their average life span is 21 years shorter than their fellow citizens'. Their unemployment rate is nearly 40%, ten times the national average. Some 50,000 American Indian families live in miser able huts, shanties, tents, abandoned cars. Half of their children never finish high school. Their sickness, illiteracy and poverty rank among America's worst. Their sad estate last week moved President Johnson to declare in a message to Congress: "No enlightened nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can permit this shocking situation to continue...
...explaining that paradox, Johnson noted that health costs may zoom by 140% in the decade that began in 1965. While the overall cost of living is expected to rise a mere 20% in that span, drug payments are expected to rise by 65%, dental-care bills by 100%, doctors' bills by 160% and general hospital costs by no less than 250%. The President contended that much of the projected increase is unnecessary, and results from an insurance setup that encourages both doctors and patients to choose hospitalization even when less costly forms of care would be equally effective. Also...
...experiments performed by NASA Physiologist Jiro Oyama, who has been raising mice and rats under artificial gravities created by centrifuges at Ames Research Center in California. Whirling on an 8½-ft. centrifuge, two female rats survived for 47 months, a year longer than their normal three-year life span...