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...have not been as bad as the Nixon-Ford era; they've been worse. Between 1968 and 1976, while Republicans ruled in the White House, Federal aid to New York City nearly doubled. Since Carter took office in 1977, however, aid has fallen by a total of 11 per cent...
...Another is to flare surgically the point of attachment of these muscles, dispersing the strain. McMahon and Greene also talk about prescribing prismatic eyeglasses, lenses which dupe the eyes into "thinking" they are focused on a distant point. These solutions remain speculative, but for the 30 to 40 per cent of all Americans who suffer from myopia, hope is in sight...
...Seventy per cent of students polled support the ERA, and we want to tap that support," Jung said to the group, which included about ten men and several people wearing "59 cents" buttons (to indicate the average amount a woman earns for every dollar a man earns...
...missiles in Europe in the face of what he claimed to be the generous offer of President Brezhnev in October to enter negotiations on the European missile issue. He also noted the decision already made on the part of the U.S. administration to increase the arms budget 5 per cent above inflation and the agreement to go ahead with further plans for the building and deployment of the new MX missile system. But, if this explains the Soviet willingness to give up on detente, their move into Afghanistan still seems more complex. In one sense, it follows directly from their...
Because doctors commonly believe that the causes of impotency--the inability to achieve erection at least 25 per cent of the time during attempted intercourse--are psychological, they usually treat it solely as a psychological problem. But the study states that "psychotherapy has not proved to be consistently effective in alleviating impotence...