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This is the basic G.O.P. cure-all for most of the ills that afflict the nation. Say the Republicans: "American families are already paying taxes at higher rates than ever in our history; as a result of Carter's policies, the rates will go even higher." The platform calls for the Kemp-Roth cut of 30% in federal income tax rates over three years, a reduction opposed by the Democrats on the ground that the rich would save more money in taxes than the poor. The Republicans also propose indexing taxes to the inflation rate to eliminate bracket creep...
...disease has no known cure. Aspirin is the standard treatment, because it lowers fever, reduces inflammation and helps keep the blood from clotting. Most afflicted children eventually recover fully, as Jeffrey did, but up to one-third develop problems-especially aneurysms in the coronary arteries, weak patches in the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Complications from the condition, which may include abnormalities in the heart rhythm, heart attacks, or even a rare rupture of the coronary artery, kill about two in 100 patients...
...England Medical Center Hospital's pediatric unit in Boston, where Jeffrey was treated, and elsewhere, doctors are trying to find the cause of the disease, and its cure, by taking blood, spinal fluid and skin samples. Some are examined immediately, others frozen for future study. For now, says Jeffrey's physician, Richard Meade III, doctors confronted by a youngster with odd symptoms might "think of Kawasaki...
...Congress start curing our ailing industry, like automobiles in Detroit [July 21], by proclaiming that profit is not a dirty word. Let's also decree that employees give a day's work for a day's wage and establish that industry must only be reasonably safe and reasonably nonpolluting. Then we can chisel in stone: "The Government cannot and will not cure ailing industry...
...Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time the two have disposed of their tormentors, in a well-staged final confrontation, they have done a lot of growing...