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...league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent of nuclear weapons in order to preserve its market share. The petit Dr. Blumenthal discovers the Hippocratic hypocrisy only after she is turned into a composite of Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman, crisscrossing the country to study and contain flare-ups of EHF. Cook's best-selling technique is infallible: he lowers his readers' resistance with hard science, then exposes them to the woman-in-jeopardy scenes and chase sequences that spread his infectious tale to the moviegoing population...
...decision involved the case of Gene Arline, who in 1979 was dismissed as a third-grade teacher after she suffered her third flare-up of tuberculosis symptoms in two years. The school board in Nassau County, Fla., said it feared she could spread the disease. Bitter "after what they did to me," Arline sued, arguing that she was protected by the 1973 federal Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against the handicapped by recipients of federal funds. The trouble was that the law made no specific mention of contagious diseases...
...latest flare-up arose after the campus independent newspaper The Daily Free Press alleged that the current dean of the College of Communications H. Joachim Maitre had been censoring by deleting unconfirmed reports of rebel atrocities against Soviet soldiers from a brochure promoting the AMRC...
...consecutive year Tokyo announced that it would continue a program of voluntary export quotas on cars destined for the U.S. This year's ceiling of 2.3 million vehicles remained the same as in the two previous years. Japanese automakers termed the government restraints a necessary evil to avoid a flare-up of U.S. protectionist sentiments...
Warding off such a flare-up is also, paradoxically enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...