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...Less Drastic Predictions...
...Star to a morning paper, we concluded that it would have been prohibitively expensive." The editors also considered turning it into a racy tabloid, but quickly rejected that idea as being contrary to the company's editorial tradition. Moreover, it is far from certain that such a drastic change in the Star's character would have succeeded commercially. Says Washington Publishing Analyst John Morton: "There wasn't any real solution to the Star's problems...
Principally, they stem from what New Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
Says one industry source: "If you took a hard pencil to that route, you'd say, 'No way.' " In a first step back from that policy, Pan Am this week is expected to announce a drastic reduction in many of its unprofitable routes...
...almost a century, the cornerstone of treatment for breast cancer was the Halsted radical mastectomy. In this physically and often emotionally scarring operation, the breast, underlying chest muscles and lymph nodes in the armpit are removed. In the past decade, however, most doctors have recommended less drastic surgery, particularly for women whose cancer is detected early. Now a major study confirms that women with very small tumors are just as well off with limited operations that spare most of the breast tissue...