Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four months, they took several capsules of the drug each day. By the end of that period, the acne had vanished in nine patients. The skin of four others cleared two to ten months later. Even in the one "uncured" case, there was a 75% improvement. Better yet, write Peck and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, side effects were minimal and temporary: some chapped lips, skin dryness, minor nosebleeds and slight irritation of the eyes...
True enough, the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average have not performed nearly so well as gold in the 1970s. They have lost close to 8% in value. But that hardly means that gold, which pays no dividends, would have been a better play. It was illegal for Americans to own gold until 1975, and by that time foreign speculators, anticipating an immediate rush into gold, had bid it up to nearly $200 per oz. At that level, investors remained wary, and within a year the metal slumped to about half its value. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones average...
...barred the public sale of liquor by the drink. But the city is on a culture kick. In the past decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything is up to date in this Kansas city, and that is a good sign for the nation that surrounds...
...supervisor. The idea was that employees could see the output trends, figure how much the company could afford and decide who deserved the most. Says President Manford McNeil, whose salary of "more than $25,000" is set by the board of directors: "The workers are bound to have a better idea of how hard-working or reliable an employee is than I have. If it were up to me, I'd probably give the wrong guy a raise...
...rigorously organized taste. The problem with work of this kind is not that it is in some way provocative or unfamiliar, but the reverse: its very reticence, its excessive care about its own limits, unintentionally becomes a form of surrender. There is very little here that was not done better, and under the stress of a more vivid necessity, in Europe and in Russia 50 years ago. It is all footnote and no text...