Word: foreign
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...took effect. Now legislators have reached an agreement to forbid smoking on all commercial flights within the continental U.S. and on flights of six hours or less between the mainland and Alaska and Hawaii. The legislation, which is expected to pass both the House and Senate, also applies to foreign airlines for any part of their flights within the U.S. Flight attendants worried about their own health, and many airline executives happy to get rid of the hassle of separating smokers and nonsmokers, approved the ban. After this latest loss, the tobacco industry is using its declining clout...
While Crier is articulate, she gave the opening installments more than her share of bumpy moments, including one glaring error. Reading a story about alleged CIA action against foreign governments, she indicated that socialist Salvador Allende Gossens had ruled Chile "from 1963 to 1973." As any news junkie would be likely to remember, Allende came to power in 1970, amid criticism from President Richard Nixon. Co-anchor Shaw so far sounds muted in his enthusiasm. Says he: "What she's been doing has been very adequate...
...organ transplants performed in the U.S. each year are often successful only because the patients take a daily dose of cyclosporine. The drug keeps their immune systems from attacking and rejecting the foreign organs. But it is not perfect. Some 70% of patients getting a new liver, for example, still suffer rejection episodes. And many organ recipients face life- threatening side effects from cyclosporine, including an increased risk of cancer and heart disease...
Should the U.S. Government be involved in coups that might result in the assassination of foreign political leaders? That old controversy was being debated with new intensity last week in Washington. In the wake of this month's failed coup against Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, the fickle finger of blame is being pointed in all directions. It has been aimed at George Bush, at Congress, at CIA director William Webster and at the coup plotters themselves. Last week it targeted a section of a presidential order that bars all direct or indirect U.S. involvement in assassinations. The issue...
...Colell acknowledges that foreign scholars might not serve as role models for American minority students, but says they can still contribute to the diversity of a faculty...