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...voluntary effort of the past two years to contain health care costs and to boost efficiency has worked and will continue to work, Sammons said, noting that the cost of medical services has risen 3.6 percentage points less than the overall cost of services during the past year...
Besides working to contain costs, doctors during the 80's will concentrate on the prevention of common diseases, Sammons said, adding that "by 1977 more than half of our medical residents were planning to enter primary-care medicine--family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology...
...Robert Welch was fed up. He had enjoyed a successful 25-year career as an executive at the James O.Welch Company (his brother founded the Cambridge candy-making firm), but that couldn't contain the concern that was gnawing at him: Communism...
Kennedy's speech was received coolly by Carter, who ordered his staffers to control their emotions and hold their tongues. But they were barely able to contain their anger and sarcasm. "The speech will win back the liberal activists but hurt him in the general election," said a staffer. Campaign Director Robert Strauss commented: "I'm rather speechless about the speech. It didn't excite me, and I suspect the American public feels the same...
Canada supports American plans to boycott the Olympics and contain Soviet expansionism, the long-time Conservative premier of Canada's largest province said, adding that "Canadians and Americans stand together in their rejection of international lawlessness and the trampling of individual and collective freedom...