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Ever since MATEP was conceived more than a decade ago, Harvard financial planners have expected to replace the operating funds that were diverted to construct the plant with a low-interest borrowing scheme such as the upcoming issue...
...years ago, doctors began to see more detail with a new kind of X-ray machine that uses a computer to construct clear, cross-sectional views of the body. The CAT scanner (for Computerized Axial Tomography) revolutionized radiology. But now that virtually every large hospital in the country has invested in one, at about a million dollars apiece, another revolution is under way: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR. Currently being studied for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new technology is in experimental use at about half a dozen top U.S. medical centers as well as several overseas...
...good writer can construct a play out of cardboard and paste, and, in the right hands, even the flimsiest plot can be turned into an amusing and diverting evening in the theater. But such hands have not come anywhere near this English import, which opened on Broadway last week. Rarely has so very little been made of so very little...
...deciding a similar case, the Rhode Island court ruled last week that the city of Pawtucket, R.I., could not construct a Nativity scene on municipal property...
...having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts International is planning additional construction featuring a second casino and a sports arena. Both the Golden Nugget and Caesars are preparing additional casino sites of their own. It seems that Atlantic City's casino operators are following a time-honored...