Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price tag? $100,000. The immediate purpose? To accommodate 2,500 people gathering at the hotel this week for the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals. It will be the largest meeting of disabled people ever assembled in the U.S. Half the official delegates, drawn from every state, are handicapped. A quarter are parents of handicapped children, and the rest are professionals in the field. All face a hard week's work, studying 466 pages of "awareness papers" and attending eight workshops to discuss topics ranging from psychological problems to chronic unemployment...
...think a more appropriate tag for Andrew Young would be "Young Butz...
Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
...energy crisis. Says he: "The signals provided by the free enterprise system must be supplemented by governmental signals. Government must set the goals as well as the incentives and disincentives." Bradshaw would even accept Government price setting-but only on one product, crude oil, with the condition that the tag should reflect replacement costs...
...Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands of patients...