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...revolutionized the fledgling discipline of sexual therapy with its unprecedented clinical prescriptions for treating frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Faultfinders contend that both Human Sexual Inadequacy and a subsequent Masters and Johnson study of homosexuality are marred by vague language and fail to provide basic criteria and measures to assess the actual number of patient failures and relapses. In cases of low sexual desire, for example, M & J report a "nonfailure" rate of 80% without explaining precisely what that means. By contrast, other sexual therapists report a success rate of less than 50% for the disorder...
That is, however, about all they agree on. Some officials, for instance, assess performance by meeting with an employee before reaching a firm decision. Others opt for the love-it-or-leave-it approach, informing an employee of his new salary only after setting...
...year-old Repetto, who has taught at the University for 10 years, is scheduled to leave Harvard June 30. He declined to discuss his future plans or to assess whether the legal charges could affect them...
Against this backdrop, TIME last week held an Atlantic Alliance conference to assess the differences that now separate the U.S. and its West European allies. The setting was Hamburg, which, as Helmut Schmidt, the former West German Chancellor, pointed out, is only 25 minutes by car from the frontier with the Soviet bloc and only twelve minutes more from the nearest Soviet armored division. For three days, 45 political leaders, government officials, strategists and economists from the U.S. and Western Europe diagnosed the alliance's ills, aired their grievances and sought to find remedies...
...metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week to assess the state of their cause...