Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...point during the contempt hearings, anarchy erupted. Three raucous defendants hurled a flag at the bench and screamed: "That's the flag that ought to be there next to you-the Nazi flag!" The disrupters even tore up their contempt citations...
...Nursing-home care is poor. The report cites case after case in which homes were short-staffed-to a point where one home had only three people to cover an intensive-care floor of more than 50 patients. Those who are employed are often poorly trained for their jobs. As a result, many patients have waited hours for medical care. Cruelty to patients is also common, report Nader's Raiders, whose personal journals record instances in which elderly people have been abused by nursing personnel...
...economic problems, social and racial tensions aggravated businessmen's distress in 1970. Shoplifting has tripled since 1959. The trend alarms many merchants, who point out that pilferage now costs them-and their customers-2½? out of every dollar of sales. Insurance executives, defending themselves against the public outcry over mass cancellations of burglary and fire policies, argue that private companies can hardly be expected to absorb the cost of crime and urban violence...
...such disasters. After Texas Congressman Wright Patman, an archenemy of banks and railroads, blocked the Nixon Administration's efforts to prop up the Pennsy with a $200 million loan guarantee, the Federal Reserve moved swiftly to steer the financial system out of danger. The board made a special point of offering to advance credit to commercial banks through its "discount window," providing them with much needed funds for relending to corporations that had to pay off commercial paper. The mechanism was conventional, but the need for speed was so urgent that five top officers of the New York Federal...
...forlorn, ill-fed Dickens who lodged alone during the blacking-factory days was the original of all the young innocents set wandering in his books-the Oliver Twists and David Copperfields and Pips. Through them, his evocations of childhood and the child's point of view are still unmatched for sympathy and immediacy, as well as for their perceptive mixture of terror and delight...