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Most of these matters cancel each other out, but there is just enough energy remaining to make Two-Minute Warning an amusing time waster. Rowlands and Janssen contrive to make something real and affecting out of their soapy roles, and the closing sequence of the movie-full of determined cops, flying bullets, panicked fans and trampled bodies - is good for a few edgy moments. Of course, the quiet after so many clocks wind down is itself impressive, not to say a relief...
...while. Their history goes back to John F. Kennedy, who in 1962 established a system relating price and wage increases to worker productivity. The eventual guidelines: 3.2% a year for wages, zero average for prices. After Kennedy won a celebrated confrontation with steelmakers and got them to cancel a price boost, inflation rates stayed low until the Viet Nam War touched off a boom that overwhelmed the guidelines...
David Godolphin '78, Padan Aram editor-in-chief, said yesterday he was unaware the Advocate had plans to publish the poem. "I'm sorry to hear that they had to cancel it," he said...
...memory. Onetime killers like measles and chicken pox have been downgraded into childhood diseases capable of producing lasting immunities in their survivors. Inoculation and modern sanitation have all but eliminated smallpox. Cholera remains endemic only on the Indian subcontinent. But, McNeill concludes, "knowledge and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life." Microbes have already shown that they are more flexible than man, and can move easily from animal hosts into humans. The swine flu virus seems to be making the jump today. No one can guess which microbe might massively cross...
...usually mounted on sign posts at convenient intervals along the highway. To operate one, the distressed driver simply pulls down a lever-like cover, which winds up a small generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol headquarters. There, dispatchers record the location of the box and call for a tow truck, ambulance, fire engine or squad...