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...taxes. The plan, which is designed to cut the inflation rate in half by January, was approved both by the Histadrut, the giant labor federation that represents about 1.5 million workers, and by the Manufacturers Association. Neither liked the plan very much, but both realized that some sort of drastic belt tightening was essential. As Avi Pelossof, a spokesman for the manufacturers association, put it, "In the last two or three months, we lost control of our business, and it was no joke. Nobody knew if he was losing money or how much money he was losing." A government worker...
...Leonard Bailey, 41, the pediatric cardiac surgeon who treated Fae, over the years had seen dozens of infants with this defect die, generally within two weeks of birth. While a transplant from a human donor could theoretically be used to help such babies, Bailey was discouraged by the drastic shortage of infant hearts. Seven years ago he began investigating the possibility of using hearts from other species, or xenografts. He performed more than 150 transplants in sheep, goats and baboons, many of them between species. Last December, after what Bailey called "months of agonizing," the Loma Linda institutional review board...
...other members of his Administration, who knew that the land-based missiles make up a far greater proportion of the Soviet than of the U.S. nuclear-strike forces. Alexander Haig, who was Secretary of State at the time, has written that the U.S. proposals "would require such drastic reductions in the Soviet inventory as to suggest that they were unnegotiable." If Reagan really was taken aback by the Soviet response, that would raise questions about his understanding of basic nuclear facts...
...Shostakovich, whose servility to the Soviet authorities Vishnevskaya defends with the ferocity of friendship. She was not old enough in 1936 to understand the humiliation heaped on the composer when Stalin took exception to his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. But she was witness in 1965 to the drastic changes Shostakovich made in the score and libretto when a movie, renamed Katerina Izmailova, was made of his musical drama. Soviet censors lagged behind their American counterparts where sex was concerned. Vishnevskaya's account of the filming of a bedroom scene: "My lover, who was in full uniform, crawled...
...university is to lay any claim to station at the frontiers of civilization, then it has an obligation, as part of its public function, to oppose racial discrimination, wherever it occurs. Against its most entrenched form, in South Africa, Harvard must take its most drastic action. Even is divestment will not immediately help South Africans, Harvard can clear its own name of complicity and Harvard can set an example for others. There is no excuse...