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...biggest winner in over-the-counter stocks was Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22¾. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from...
Despite his stature, there has until now been no full-dress biography of Niebuhr, who died in 1971 at age 78. Fox, who teaches at Oregon's Reed College, fills the gap with Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, to be issued next week by Pantheon (340 pages; $19.95). It is an admirable work, appreciative but not uncritical, enriched but not burdened by meticulous research. Though Niebuhr's ideas are skillfully woven into the story, Fox offers a life, not a theology text...
Despite a declining dollar on world currency markets, which makes foreign products more expensive in the U.S., Western Europe's trade surplus is expected to rise from last year's $25 billion to $40 billion. If, as expected, the European export boom eventually cools down, the gap can easily be filled at home by rising consumer demand and increased industrial investments. Even the painful level of unemployment will probably decline slightly in the year ahead, partly as a result of an increase in small, new businesses. Nonetheless, some 10.5% of the labor force remains jobless, and this continues...
...hospitals across the U.S., similar tales of callous and even life-threatening treatment apparently stemming from changes in the Medicare system seem to be cropping up with disturbing frequency. To concerned doctors and health-care groups, they reflect a growing gap in the American health-care system. Carroll Estes, director of the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, calls it the "no-care zone...
...election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After the allegations began to mushroom, polls put Waldheim 10 points ahead, but the gap has narrowed lately...