Word: shave
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...programs, or laid out by consumers who now pay their own medical bills. Since the new plan envisions far greater efficiency, almost $14 billion would be saved by eliminating administrative waste and overlapping programs. To that end, Max Fine of the Committee of 100 estimated that the Government could shave $1.1 billion from the national health-care bill by abolishing the more than 20,000 different types of policies now offered by 1,800 competing private insurers, the largest of which would become Government contractors. It could save another $6.4 billion by eliminating doctors' overcharges and unnecessary surgery...
There were other problems inside the hotel. Without running water, toilets became clogged; without electricity, food spoiled in the refrigerators. The atmosphere began to grow fetid. Some newsmen had filled their bathtubs before the water stopped. They doled it out for a shave and a wash that even a kitten would regard as perfunctory...
...collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls and to fill the jails with indiscriminate arrests. Among those seized was TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia, who was arrested without explanation in Quito and then expelled from the country after spending a night confined to a 6-ft. by 9-ft. cell in a Quito penitentiary...
Seeking the answer, the scientist set up an experiment in which he eagerly served as a guinea pig. After each daily shave with an electric razor, he meticulously collected and weighed the amount of hair that had been removed. He also devised a zero-to-five scale for rating each day's activities-including mental and physical exertion, degree of nervousness, amount of sleep and occurrence of intercourse...
...Shoot Straight. Mailer-Breslin was a ticket compounded of booze fulminate of mercury, and laughing gas It was too volatile to survive. There was also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty, and curtly rejected scripts for spot radio announcements in favor of an abominable jingle from...