Word: aron
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...Unlike the argon laser, which has been used by eye surgeons for nearly two decades, the YAG does not produce its effect by burning. Instead, it concentrates light energy into very short, intense pulses that create tiny, 1/10-mm cuts. "It causes a very small explosion," explains French Surgeon Daniele Aron-Rosa, who, along with Swiss Surgeon Franz Fankhauser, is credited with inventing YAG surgery...
...Aron's point, however, has a goodly amount of immediate, and unfortunate, practicality. There are not many executives who can appreciate or allow that the skill, say, of time management at home might be applied to office management, just as there are still very few corporations with personnel departments set up to accommodate the needs of the new work force and the flexible family. Other than enlisting the aid of family members, day care remains the most common way to manage the children during work hours...
Floral Vignettas from the Cape of Good Hope--Aron Laurie; Hunnewell Bldg., Arnold Arboretum, Jamalca Plain...
...Other observers, however, are convinced that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported that view last week, vowing publicly to "fulfill all my promises...
...whole concept of nationalization and Keynesian government intervention seems to belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment when all the great countries of the world turn away from socialism, the French at last sign a seven-year lease with...