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With few exceptions, major cities across the U.S. are in financial trouble, though their problems are far less menacing than New York's. One reason is that most other cities are forbidden to issue short-term bonds and notes for operating expenses; those that may do so generally must pay off the debts within the same fiscal year. In inflationary times, these cities have had to raise taxes or reduce payrolls and services to live within their incomes. Following are reports on the 12 biggest U.S. cities, except for New York and Washington, D.C., the eleventh largest, which...
...would be forbidden to approve any deal among airlines that would reduce competition, such as the agreements between lines to cut back schedules jointly...
...developed and probably never will be, say Wardell and Lasagna. Therefore, it is unreasonable to expect drug developers to prove that their product is totally without risk. Every drug represents a compromise between risks and potential benefits. Only when the risks clearly outweigh the benefits should a drug be forbidden...
...Louis and the University of California at Los Angeles will be harder to dismiss because it was so carefully conducted. The researchers found 20 men who volunteered for the study and confined them to the metabolic research ward of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute. There they were forbidden to smoke cigarettes or drink coffee or alcohol, and given no marijuana for eleven days before their testosterone levels were measured. Only then were they allowed to smoke pot. Each man was given a daily average of five marijuana cigarettes containing a known quantity of pot's active ingredient and monitored...
...Manila hotel ballroom was festooned with red Chinese lanterns last week, and behind the podium hung a huge black and white photo of Communist Chinese workers and soldiers on a sightseeing tour of the Forbidden City. The meeting was not, however, a rally for Mao, but a gathering of 419 Evangelical Protestants from 22 nations intent on spreading the Gospel to the People's Republic...