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...malpractice premiums have deterred young physicians from entering practice, there are indications that the costs are forcing older physicians out, thus contributing to the medical manpower shortage. Some semiretired doctors attempting to practice part time have found that they cannot afford to pay full premiums, and have had to abandon medicine completely...
Though the Justices all agreed that Carnal Knowledge was permissible softcore porn, they are still split on the basic strategy for dealing with obscenity. Justice William Brennan, who feels that Government would do better to abandon the field altogether, filed a brief opinion gloomily noting that the court had once again fallen back into "the mire of case-by-case determinations of obscenity." Brennan's I-told-you-so was aimed mainly at Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the previous porn opinions that encouraged local courts and prosecutors to take off after whatever books, movies and plays seemed...
Probably the crudest dilemma facing the new middle class is their relationship with blacks left behind in the ghetto. It is natural enough for the middle class to pull out of the slums once they can afford to-just as other ethnic groups have done. But by leaving, they abandon those who cannot escape the ghetto to its more rapacious elements, aggravating the spread of crime and decay. Small wonder that middle-class blacks feel some guilt and ambivalence about fleeing to better neighborhoods...
...bitter residue of the experience remains for others. "I don't have a single good memory of Tule Lake," says Mas Kito, 59, who had been forced to abandon his dry-cleaning business. "I was mad then, and I'm still mad," adds Kiege Kaku, 59, of Palo Alto, Calif. He still cannot forget the War Relocation...
European planemakers have stalled out while trying to intercept a larger share of the U.S.-dominated world market. The French sank $130 million into the Mercure mid-range commercial jet, sold only ten of them, and most likely will abandon the plane. A similar fate may well await the Concorde supersonic jetliner, on which much more British and French prestige is riding. Development costs have hit a frightening $2 billion, and the troubled plane's only solid customers so far are the state-owned airlines of the two countries financing...