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...more immediate hazards, however, are physical. The wide-ranging temperatures cause respiratory infections: chronic colds, coughs and sore throats. The highly chlorinated water that is piped to the desert often brings on stomach cramps and nausea. Dehydration comes on quickly during the daytime heat, and unless the Americans drink much more water than they are accustomed to, they will be vulnerable to sunstroke and fainting spells...
DESMETHOXY RESERPINE. Reduces the blood pressure; chronic use leads to severe mental depression...
Large Subsidy. According to many experts, the Postal Service's chronic financial squeeze stems from a conflict of goals. Under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S.P.S. must operate as a public service, so postal authorities regard themselves as being obliged to continue performing many uneconomic operations, such as delivering mail door-to-door instead of at a central pickup point. Yet the law also insists that the Postal Service attempt to be selfsupporting. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar is urging Congress to undertake a study to determine whether the U.S.P.S. needs an increase in the $920 million...
...poorest of the non-Communist industrial nations (see chart). Between 1967 and 1973, when growth rates were soaring in the U.S., Japan and most of Western Europe, Britain's economy expanded by an annual average of only 2.2%. At the same time, Britain was struggling with a chronic balance of payments deficit. As a result, it was especially hard hit by the 1973 rise in oil prices...
...that offers strong temptation for armchair psychologizing, and unfortunately Cate succumbs. Although his narrative does justice to Sand's complexity, his labels do not. She is diagnosed as "a do-good mystico-religious personality" with a "hairshirt complex," and her sexual frustrations are rather cavalierly attributed to a chronic case of "nympholepsy"−the desire for an ecstasy so sublime that no mortal can satisfy it. Gate also makes Sand do some special pleading for viewpoints that are clearly his own. He conjectures, for instance, that "were she alive today, Sand would regard the militant crusaders of women...