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...committee said it would buttress its findings in 40 volumes of testimony and evidence to be issued this spring, but it sent its preliminary report to the Justice Department with the suggestion that further investigation is warranted. A spokesman there said Justice will await the full report before deciding what to do. The best guess: Justice has little desire for yet another assassination inquiry...
Lasch relies on classic psychoanalytic theory to buttress his argument. Boiled down, it might be stated that a once rugged and resourceful America is now seething with a destructive Oedipal rage masquerading as the pleasure principle. But the heart of Lasch's critique is an involved analysis of capitalism that cannot be reduced...
...bold proposal. Dr. Jordan Gutterman of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute had applied to the American Cancer Society for a grant of more than a million dollars to buy interferon, a scarce and expensive substance that has shown promise in cancer research. To buttress his request, Gutterman reported that of ten advanced breast cancer patients he had treated with interferon, four had shown shrinkage of their widespread tumors. Those results, following encouraging news about interferon in animal and human tests by other researchers, seemed too compelling to ignore. Exceeding even Gutterman's expectations, the A.C.S. set aside...
Take Romania: "an island of Latin-speaking people in a sea of Slavs," as they like to see themselves. Its flamboyant leader, Nicolai Ceaucescu, has brillantly grafted this sense of identity to buttress his regime. A steady stream of contacts-mainly with Third World countries-and visits from non-Soviet bloc leaders (the most recent being Chairman Hua of China) underline a foreign policy independent of Moscow but now where Romania keeps her presence if not her troops within the Warsaw Pact...
...these moves would be sufficient to steady up the dollar over the long run, but some combination of them might buttress the buck long enough to permit fundamental market forces to take over. The Carter Administration has long hoped that the dollar's slide would eventually be self-correcting. It would boost U.S. exports by making them cheaper, cut imports by making them more expensive, and thus lower the trade deficit; then the dollar would rise again. There are some signs that the Administration's faith may not be in vain. For example, Japanese imports now account...