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...contention centers on the arbitration procedures the MBTA and the union would follow if contract negotiations stall--a distinct possibility given the history of feisty bargaining between the two parties. The present contract of the union--which represents the city's carmen--expires December...
...session each day. In 1974 Anderson was diagnosed as having mitral valve prolapse, a slight deformation of one of the four valves of the heart. The condition, not generally dangerous, is thought to be shared by up to 15% of Americans, but it produces a distinct heart noise, and so is known as the "systolic-click-murmur" syndrome. He has no symptoms but has been advised to take penicillin before undergoing dental work because infection sometimes spreads through bleeding gums. The antibiotic is intended to ward off a bacterial infection to the heart, something to which people with this valve...
...Will the New Jersey Nets win the National Association title? Without the endorsement of Senator Bill Bradley, it appears unlikely. With Bradley's endorsement and that of Rep. Morris Udall (D-Ariz.) a championship is a distinct possibility...
There are men who argue that sexual favors are a distinct and unfair advantage for women in corporate competition. Yet when sex enters business decisions, it far more frequently works against the woman who is harassed by a superior and forced to compromise herself or lose out in the promotional game. And, as Ellen Goodman points out in the Boston Globe, if women actually had this unfair advantage and used it, far more would have reached top corporate positions...
...such a complex exist in humans? Dausset, 63, of the Saint-Louis Hospital of the University of Paris, found that it did. Comparing the white blood cells (leukocytes) of patients undergoing transfusions with those from blood donors, Dausset identified distinct antigens on cell surfaces. Then he located the controlling genes. Because they were first found in white blood cells, the surface proteins are called human leukocyte antigens (HLA), though they exist in all tissues. Over 40 antigens have been identified...