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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike rationing by coupon, the 50-50 plan allows individuals to make their own choices. Coupon rationing would require a sizeable bureaucracy. Furthermore, such a system would force the government to reach difficult decisions. How will the government determine how many coupons each individual should receive? Even with a "white...

Author: By Carl Stork, | Title: A Square Deal | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

Besides guaranteeing that America would use no more than the planned amount of gasoline, rationing would allow everybody to buy a minimum amount of gasoline at a reasonable, controlled price. Permitting a "white market" for sale of unwanted rationing coupons would end some of the abuses arising during World War...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Save Gasoline | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

THE PROVERBIAL LAST straw came when Clark introduced a budget that was trumpeted as austere but criticized as unfair. The government fell December 13, and the Tories slated a national election for February 18, the first campaign in the midst of Canada's frigid winter since 1887. Many experts claim...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Trudeau Redux | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

Long before John Rose was born, general practitioners began disappearing from the American landscape. But a decade ago, medical schools started offering a new specialty called family practice. Rose signed up, and so did many others. Today there are 54,000 family physicians in the U.S. (as compared with 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: New Doc on the Hill | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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