The Clinton Administration has implied that short-run failures to control health care costs may cause a reexamination of wage and price controls as elements of comprehensive health care reform. The most recent imposition of mandatory wage and price controls was the Economic Stabilization Program (ESP) of the early 1970s. We analyze trends in hospitals' economic behavior and utilization before, ...

(SK) Well I guess it is a slightly different answer for each of us, but essentially for all of us, it was through the Eurotra project. This was the MT project that was created by the European Commission in the late 1970s. The aim was to produce a high quality, fully automatic machine translation system for use by the EC. The EC had a serious translation problem because of the number of language...

During the period of rapid economic growth since 1970s, Korea imported many polluting industrial facilities from Japan, resulting in generation huge amounts hazardous waste. While problems environmental degradation such as these were an integral part Korea’s development process, they have received only scant attention official history country’s development, often being dismissed peripheral issu...

In the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, ozone (O(3)) concentrations have been elevated since the 1950s with peaks reaching 600 ppb and summer seasonal averages >100 ppb in the 1970s. During that period increased mortality of ponderosa and Jeffrey pines occurred. Between the late 1970s and late1990s, O(3) concentrations decreased with peaks approximately 180 ppb and approximately...