Word: cat
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...West Germany's more promising young boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner...
During one of the routine, twice-yearly physical examinations required for all boxers under West German regulations, a standard electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently...
Although the new rules have stopped the huge fat-cat giving of the past, the rich have other ways of affecting political campaigns. They can contribute up to $5,000 to any of the 1,828 political action committees (PACs), which in turn can hand that sum on to candidates. Corporations, by soliciting their employees and stockholders, can form PACs too. Since the mid-'70s, companies and their trade associations have formed some 1,200 of these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent...
Overseas the dollar came under selling pressure again last week and gave up some of the gains it had made early in the rescue program. The selling came primarily from exporters in various countries who played what New York Money Trader Claude Tygier called "a cat-and-mouse game" with central banks. Having acquired dollars by selling their products, the exporters sold some of those greenbacks in order to test whether the government bankers really were determined to support the price...
...translating this ring-cycle to the screen had stymied some of the most formidable names in Hollywood, including Walt Disney, and still he plunged ahead. Bakshi brought to this project none of the brass and sass that animated his earlier cartoon features including the X-rated Fritz the Cat and the jive-talking Heavy Traffic. If reverence had wings, his new picture would fly. The fact that it hobbles simply proves again that the road to Mordor is paved with good intentions...