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...tell if there are going to be any complications," says Dr. Steven Gitelis, director of the bone bank at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. The once frozen ligaments and tendons may not properly hold the knee together, and the original cartilage may fail to cushion it from shocks. "I would wait at least a year to proclaim success," he adds. Even so, says Mankin, "I'm all for it. If Schmidt has solved the problems of this operation, I'll be doing it next week...
Some body fat is essential, of course. The yellowish globules, layered under the skin and packed around organs, cushion the body against injury, insulate it from cold and supply fuel to meet energy needs. Too much fat, however, increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, among other afflictions. Establishing ideal body-fat percentages is difficult, since height, age, body frame and exercise are all factors. Generally, scientists agree that the normal range for men is 12% to 23% and for women...
...might bring on a still worse crash, a world financial crisis and a shattering global recession. Moreover, there does seem to be a way out. In outline: Start now a program to cut the budget deficit steadily and substantially through a mixture of spending cuts and, yes, tax increases. Cushion the blow to the American economy -- and there will be some blow -- by easing Federal Reserve monetary policy and allowing interest rates to come down. Meanwhile seek the cooperation of foreign nations to ease their own interest rates and stimulate their home economies -- and perhaps let the exchange value...
...high-interest-rate policy that proved to be poison to world stock markets. And still the Louvre values could not be sustained. ( Last week the dollar fell to new lows against the West German mark and Japanese yen; foreign governments seemed willing to buy only enough U.S. currency to cushion, not stop, the decline...
...before Black Monday, the government had successfully completed the $2.6 billion sale of state-owned Compagnie Financiere de Suez, a financial combine. Last week Suez's debut on the battered Paris Bourse was suddenly postponed. Reason: in the continuing stock slump, shareholders would be hit by immediate losses. To cushion the blow, the 1.6 million small investors who bought Suez shares may eventually be allowed to pay in installments...