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...concerned that the going may get rougher after Ronald Reagan's Inauguration in January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin America. In that climate, El Salvador's rightists might feel free to mount an even more intense confrontation with the left...
...recent tax regulation will be even harder on first novelists, and is certain to curtail lesser-known writers' advances against royalties. The Hollywoodizing of publishing and the boom-or-bust psychology that pervades the industry have made it more difficult to place first novels and nonfiction without mass appeal. The Thor decision can only quicken this trend. Few publishers are likely to take risks on little-known authors without at least a guarantee of a tax break on his unsold books. First printings will be smaller, and second printings may become a rarity for trade books that...
LaMentea added that Widener officials would notify library workers not to construct anything on their own initiative in an attempt to curtail the false alarms...
...authority. With outstretched arms, he waved down the combined cheers of the striking workers behind him and the massed crowd of sympathizers outside the gate, and lifted a microphone to his mouth. This time, however, instead of a rousing exhortation to militancy, his message was a somber admonition: to curtail the spread of further strikes across his nation and give the government the necessary breath a while. "It is not good to have Poland terrorized," the strike leader, Lech Walesa, told the crowd. "The people must have food. Poland can only last for a few more days under these conditions...
...increase since 1950. In affluent areas the rate of increase is higher. One cluster of ten suburbs on Chicago's North Shore now leads the state in teen-age suicides, with a 250% increase in the past decade. This is true despite various community efforts to curtail the upsurge. Among them: training programs for schoolteachers and social workers in suicide detection and prevention, seminars and discussion groups for parents and children, and 24-hour "hot lines" such as the one maintained by Chicago Psychoanalyst Joseph Pribyl, which receives more than 150 suicide-related calls a month...