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These lists form the substance of the manual--dull as any address book, they are Edelhart's forte. He glues them together with chapter headings that resemble K-Mart stick-ems: "Well, If They Can Cure Hiccups, What About Acne?" or "A Knotty Problem--Tying Ties...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Too Much Knowledge | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...would include draconian measures. Says Grove: "The ideal program would be very sharp fiscal and monetary policies buttressed at the outset by wage and price controls. The controls would be cosmetic, to convince people that the program is really going to work." Okun scorns this as the "trillion-dollar cure," meaning that it would cost the nation that much in lost production. He believes that such a solution would be "disastrous" because "it would have broad ramifications on the confidence in our whole institutional structure that would resurrect the darkest days of the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recession: Deeper and Longer | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Anorexia "is a life threatening disease of self-starvation," Warner said. Its cure lies with the self-help groups, early detection, and medical and psychiatric care, she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Self-help Group Seeks to Support Harvard Anorexics | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...cure for the gold plague will not be easy to find. It is even difficult to tell just who is buying. Some orders are placed with agents of agents or through post office box corporations in Liechtenstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Glitter That Is Gold | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...ensure that education gets the national "visibility and attention" that it deserves. We must have a single spokesperson for the education community, they say--even if he/she is just a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong. If one is to believe its supporters, a department is the miracle cure for what ails the federal education bureaucracy, the wonder drug that will unclog the arteries and get the circulation flowing again...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: No More DOE's | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

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