Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hannah is an evangelist for land-grant colleges, which engineered the farm revolution and now boast that "the world is our campus." His approach makes purists shudder. As they see it, M.S.U. is a big "service station" that fills up students with trade-school courses like Sewage Treatment or the Dynamics of Packaging. To Hannah, the criticism is almost a compliment: "The object of the land-grant tradition was not to de-emphasize scholarship but to emphasize its application...
...Problem. While it is too soon for certainty, there are signs that those who expect particularly gentle treatment will be disappointed. The President has made no sudden or sharp breaks with the business policies of his Democratic predecessors, nor is he likely to do so. The No. 1 economic problem is still inflation-a fact that was underscored last week by a Government survey predicting an increase in capital spending of nearly 14% in 1969, compared with only a 4% gain last year. To fight inflation, the Nixon Administration intends to extend the surtax, keep money tight...
...goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that "substantially" lessen competition. Meanwhile, Congress is considering a bill to end the favorable tax treatment accorded to companies that issue debentures to pay for mergers...
...major health problem of poor people, Pollack says, is that they are "under-utilizers of maintenance and prevention, and over-utilizers of emergency treatment." By luring needy patients in for more prevention--and by using the health plan's emphasis on out-patient treatment -- the Harvard center in Mission Hill will offer the poor a kind of medical assistance much different from the mere doles that Medicaid and Medicare pass...
...Chloe dies, Colin's apartment shrinks into a prison, his records wear out, and to pay for Chloe's treatment he's forced to find work in a munitions factory, where guns are grown with the heat from human bodies...