Word: upward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, in the ensuing decade-and-a-half, public insurance programs greatly exacerbated the upward spiral of health costs. By providing almost limitless funds for hospital services, Medicare and Medicaid fostered loose management, easy expansion and profits for related industries. Improvements in quality or access to care have generally been made at great cost. Hospitals compete for physicians with expensive new technology and abundant beds, and doctors stock the wards. Because insurance usually covers in hospital care, doctors tend to hospitalize a patient for procedures which could be done on an outpatient basis, to keep the patient in the hospital...
What will not suffer is his bank account. Already Williams makes $15,000 per episode, and that figure may soon be renegotiated upward. He and Valerie have bought an eight-room house in Topanga Canyon. Williams has not, however, joined the smart crowd in Hollywood by acquiring a Mercedes or a Rolls; he has bought a battered 1966 Land Rover. Says he: "I can't deal with new cars. I like a car that's like me -you never know what's going to happen next...
Austin contends that the department "only brought blacks on as bodies to satisfy Justice Department pressure. There were no upward mobility opportunities...
Spending on the panoply of social programs also grows. The cost of funding for Social Security, welfare, food stamps, civil service pensions and other income-security programs leaps 13%, to $179.1 billion. The trend continues upward largely because expenditures for many programs rise automatically with the rate of inflation. Social Security, at $115.2 billion, is by far the largest single item hi the budget, and the reforms proposed by Carter would save only $600 million...
...began cool and overcast, but by early afternoon the skies were a wash of bright blue. In Tehran, the throngs were filling the streets to begin once more their daily demonstrations. If the protesters had looked upward, they would have seen a blue and white Boeing 727 swing over the city, circle once and turn away. The pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years...