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...recent years doctors have come to recognize another psychological factor that drastically increases an individual's susceptibility to heart attacks and other stress-related illnesses: Type A behavior. First identified by San Francisco Cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, Type A has two main components, both of which can be recognized by giving standardized personality tests or conducting careful interviews with the patients. Says Friedman: "First, there is the tendency to try to accomplish too many things in too little time. Second, there is free-floating hostility. These people are irritated by trivial things; they exhibit signs of struggle...
Mort Ciment, 59, was what Friedman would call a typical Type A. Excitable to begin with, he worked as a Los Angeles commodities trader, a job he likens to "being in a mad cage." When the market was really moving, he says, "there was terrible tension. You'd leave to go to the bathroom, come back and find the position horribly changed." When he got home, he admits, "my nerves were singing, and I'd take it out on the nearest person...
...current troubles represent a severe setback for Pinochet's attempt to make his country a laboratory for the monetarist economic theories espoused by University of Chicago Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. Guided by advisers known as the "Chicago boys," Pinochet revamped economic policy, which under Allende had led to 600% inflation and riots over food shortages. He sold 400 ailing state-owned companies, ended price controls and most state subsidies, and encouraged foreign trade by slashing import tariffs from almost 100% to an average of 10%. The resulting economic boom encouraged most Chileans to overlook Pinochet's repressive campaigns...
...Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and Loren Jenkins of the Washington Post for reporting from Lebanon...
...Friedman called present interaction between the developers and community activists "a comfortable and good working relationship." He added that he meets monthly with representatives from the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF). Neighborhood 10 and other community groups to "keep them a breast of the plans, and to get input...