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...Medicine is inherently a sellers' market. The customer (patient) has no bargaining power; he initiates only one decision???to see a doctor. The sellers (doctors and hospitals) then take over; they decide what services the patient needs, and do not ask but order him to buy. Unable to diagnose his own illness, the patient has little choice but meekly to obey...
...most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel a treaty without the Senate's approval. Liberal Republican Jacob Javits of New York complained that Carter had not sought the advice of Congress before making his decision???especially since the House and Senate passed a resolution this year demanding just such advance consultation on the issue...
...Justices retreated to their private conference room to begin the hard work of constructing a decision???one for which the present court will be long remembered. During Warren Burger's five years as Chief Justice, the court has seemed unable to establish a firm identity or to move with consistent direction. The Burger bench contrasts sharply with its activist predecessor, and the difference was being vividly recalled last week because of the death of former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...severe internal distress. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's letter of criticism to the President (see box, page 10) and the abrupt resignation of two young Administration staffers were among the most tangible signs of strain. There were also hints of basic disagreement in the Cabinet over the Cambodian decision???hints that Nixon declined to deny at a hastily called press conference. On Capitol Hill dissension increased daily...
...delayed his departure to talk a bit longer with Khrushchev. Then, much as they began, the meetings ended with surface cordiality. The Soviets had not thawed?but they also had not displayed any disturbing belligerence. As in Paris, John Kennedy left Vienna without having made a binding pact or decision???at least none that was announced or hinted at. But in the private chats with Khrushchev, he had at least heard, untrammeled, the voice of the enemy. And having heard that voice, Jack Kennedy this week flew off, with an important London stopover, for home...