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Cousins' writings, along with a glut of similar books, television features and articles -- some by doctors -- have convinced many Americans that a positive mental attitude can help prevent and even cure a variety of ills, including cancer, and, conversely, that a negative outlook can increase vulnerability to disease. Last week the New England Journal published a study and an editorial that cast doubt on that popular view and stirred a tempest in the medical community...
Apparently convinced that the cure was more painful than the original ailment, Carter "pulled the rug out from under" his appointed inflation-buster, Feldstein says...
...need for reform. There is a genuine lack of respect out there for the tax system. That translates, in our opinion, to a genuine lack of respect for Government generally. And I think if we can cure the former, we have some chance of increasing respect for Government...
...uncertainties because it involves arcane and highly sophisticated technologies: breeder reactors, plutonium reprocessing plants, uranium-enrichment facilities.* Says Leonard Weiss, an expert on the U.S. Senate staff: "Proliferation is a set of symptoms with a number of causes. It is both a political and technical problem. Therefore no single cure, or set of cures, will work...
M.I.T. Economist Martin Weitzman may at first appear to be his profession's version of a snake-oil salesman. In his new book The Share Economy (Harvard; $15), Weitzman claims to have found a cure-all that will end both unemployment and inflation. The trick, he says, is for U.S. industry to abandon the practice of paying fixed wages and adopt a scheme that would compensate workers in relation to their employers' revenues or profits...