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...thorn. The needle was so fine and flexible that if not in the hands of an expert, it would have bent when meeting my skin rather than sticking. The next sets of needles went into my wrist, chest, abdomen and lower neck. I had been a pin cushion for 20 minutes before he at last applied his needles to the area I needed treated...
...reason for the confidence is a fat cushion: oil stocks now are more plentiful than they have ever been. On average, they are equal to about 100 days' supply in the non-Communist world. Aside from the high inventories, there is also considerably less demand because of the global recession. Before the Persian Gulf war, according to British Energy Secretary David Howell, free-world production was exceeding consumption by about 2.5 million bbl. a day. The excess had resulted in a general agreement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at their Vienna meeting two weeks ago to slash...
...increases had led to a budget squeeze. Bus drivers and clerical workers, who are represented by the Amalgamated Transit Union, bluntly refused a pay cut. The professional employees, though, had no choice. When they looked at their paychecks in July, they found only 3.5% of an expected 13% inflation cushion. In less than a month half of the 440 professionals had signed cards calling for a union election. The professional workers will probably vote in October on whether or not to have their own union...
Driving long distances can be a sure pain in the back. Some remedies: get out of the car every hour and walk around for a few minutes; position the seat forward so that knees are bent; place a cushion at the small of the back; if the tilt of a car's seats can be adjusted, change the angle slightly every so often. Boston Orthopedist Robert Boyd has perhaps the best idea: "If the trip is longer than a few hours...
...people would kill to get into" she says, but Wilkerson did not deliberate long before she rejected the law school and deferred the business school. Next year she will go to New York and try to get a job as a dancer. She will once again have the cushion of her parents' financial support, but she claims dancing is a choice "I would have made anyway." To do anything that excludes dance "is dizzying" she says, adding that although she has fears about being able to "make it as a dancer" she sees herself eventually settling into a career...