Word: curing
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Efficient and Effective. Few cities are more in need of such a cure than Newark (see box following page). In addition to the federal grand juries, a statewide and a local grand jury are probing organized crime in Newark and elsewhere in New Jersey. Following last week's indictments, the Newark Star-Ledger suggested that it would be in the city's best interests if "those under a cloud of suspicion were to remove themselves from office." The local Chamber of Commerce called for the suspension of all those indicted...
...report said Masaryk had a habit of sitting in cold places to cure his insomnia. He also had a way, it said, of sitting cross-legged in yoga fashion. The "remarkable connection" of these two habits, it concluded, probably led to his death in "an unfortunate accident...
...following a tight-money policy of unusual severity. A year ago, it began to hold back the growth of the money supply; since midyear, it has permitted no growth at all. Ironically, Friedman's principal complaint is that the Federal Reserve is overdoing the restraints in its effort to cure inflation. "If the board continues to keep the growth of money at zero for another two months, I find it hard to see how we can avoid a severe recession," he says. "The board has made the same mistake that it has made all along. It is going...
...problem starts, he said, with the current social acceptance of drugs. "The increase in drug abuse is not a negation of society's values," he said. "It is the affirmation of early propaganda, that drugs can cure anything...
...first to mount a scientific assault on elm disease. Experts have long known that it is caused by a fungus, carried by the elm-bark beetle, that clogs the tree's circulatory system. But ever since the disease hit the U.S. in the early 1930s, every cure has failed. DDT may kill birds as well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus). So far, the only...