Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderating." The average 1975 raise, he predicts, will be under the 10% average provided for in the first year of contracts negotiated during 1974. That may be an understatement. Some groups of workers are even accepting pay cuts or other economic adjustments in order to prevent further layoffs and spread the available work...
...year. Bills to limit liability or create state-sponsored insurance companies are being introduced in Tennessee, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Congress is considering federal legislation that would reimburse private insurers for awards in excess of $200,000, establish arbitration and screening panels for malpractice claims, and spread payments of awards out over several years to ease their impact on insurance companies...
...Margaret Gordon, associate director of the Carnegie Council and author of the council's report, said yesterday that the cost of implementing the Carnegie plan, when spread over a five-year period, would not greatly exceed the cost of the consortium's proposals...
Word of the exchange's success has spread; calls have come in from more than 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada asking for information about learning-exchange systems. Meanwhile, Detzel and Lewis have earned praise from the educational establishment. Says B.J. Chandler, dean of Northwestern's school of education: "The formal educational system is groaning under the load put on it. We've got to lend our support to this kind of alternative...
...Doctors are constantly searching for new ways of diagnosing cancers early, before the tumors spread so that effective treatment is difficult. Dr. Richard Sternheimer, 74, a pathologist at Chicago's Michael Reese Medical Center, has now developed a staining technique that screens cells in the urine. Because urine is formed by the kidneys and passes through the ureters, bladder, urethra and, in males, the prostate gland before it is excreted, it contains cells sloughed off from all of these organs. To determine if any of those cells are cancerous, Sternheimer stains them with two dyes: a blue coloring that...