Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged man lived in a small town, in my small town, a place that would never, could never, change. Or I thought. So I left. But my small town was not exempt from the jagged teeth of progress. It just took a while. The interstates bypassed it, sure; and the FHA-VA home loans went to buy up the old mill houses rather than add many suburbs to what had been a company town. There was hardly any urban renewal because there wasn't much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent...
...plus an adjustable figure to compensate for general inflation. That is hardly a stingy rise. Even so, more than half of the nation's nearly 6,000 community hospitals, mainly those in small towns and in states with effective cost control laws already on the books, would be exempt from controls. The country's 1,200 other hospitals, including psychiatric and federal hospitals, would also be exempt...
...would be "unworkable." Actually, a few of the bill's supporters, including Senator Kennedy, agree that there is a problem. Kennedy's subcommittee on health last week modified the Carter plan by increasing the voluntary limit to 10.9%, more carefully defining the conditions under which a hospital could be exempt from mandatory controls, and setting Dec. 31, 1984, as the date when controls would end, unless Congress acted to extend them...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday officials requested a bigger increase, adding that tax-exempt organizations like Harvard and MIT should give the city a little more than they already...
...exemption of college and university compliance would clearly darken the future of women's athletics. More important, it would hurt the colleges and universities these women attend. Schools would be denying all students the right to compete as a school representative. John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of athletics, said last week that if Title IX does exempt intercollegiate athletics. Harvard plans to encourage the wealthy programs for men to help women's sports, to continue to develop women's athletics here and to allocate athletic department money to women when compliance becomes necessary...