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...since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal elections, to the delight of Prime Minister Felipe González, who likes to say that "Spain is calm, calmer than at any time since the death of General Franco." The political honeymoon still lasts, and when the boyish 41-year-old Socialist leader flies to Washington next week on his first official visit to the U.S., he will inevitably reflect the buoyant national mood. For Spaniards, Gonz...
Type A has been accepted as a bona fide risk factor for heart disease by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Studies have shown that Type A's respond differently to stress than do calmer people classified as Type B's. When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood...
...their calmer moments, those involved insist that no such grim scenario will ever come to pass, that the unthinkable will not be allowed to happen, that the debt bomb cannot explode. But it is a fact that for the past 21 months, particularly through a nerve-racking autumn and winter, the bomb's fuse has been sputtering, forcing almost overnight major changes in international lending. Ever since March 1981, when Poland, with a debt of $27 billion, declared that it simply did not have the $2.5 billion due its creditors that year, the danger signals have been flying. Last...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...
Begin was calmer than Sadat. He said he had already demonstrated his good will by changing a longstanding policy of his government concerning the Sinai land