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...company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says Graver: "They just gobble those up each time we get an order." As creative director for a Paris advertising agency, Rene Fatton, 41, lives in the world's fashion capital, yet he buys clothes in Los Angeles. Says he: "Ralph Lauren costs a lot less...
...mammography is not infallible. There is a 1% chance of a false-positive result -- a mistaken diagnosis of a tumor -- and the anxiety, expense and pain associated with a biopsy. A graver problem is the risk of a false negative: about 20% of the time the X rays fail to detect cancers, which may be picked up by physical exam. "Is mammography worth it?" asks Eddy. Some women, he notes, upon hearing that ten years of screening will save 22 lives "will say, '22 out of 10,000, well, that'll be me.' Others will say, 'Take half...
...Carlucci case, the problem is not so critical because McEnroesque tantrums on the tennis courts don't bring out the armchair moralizers like Judge Ginsburg's pot smoking, Sen. Biden's plagiarizing, or Gary Hart's womanizing. For those men, revelations about their private lives had much graver consequences. Ginsburg's Supreme Court nomination fell through and Biden and Hart had to withdraw from the presidential campaign...
...need for increased World Bank lending grows graver every day. U.S. and international aid officials were closeted last week with representatives of the second-largest Third World debtor, Mexico. A major oil producer, Mexico has been badly hurt by the plunge in petroleum prices and is desperately trying to renegotiate the terms of its $98 billion debt...
...nationwide radio and television address, delivered partly in folksy native Creole, Council President Lieut. General Henri Namphy acknowledged that there was widespread discontent. Said he: "If you think it is grave now, I tell you it could be a lot graver if people don't return to work and lift the country out of the impasse it is in." Three days later Justice Minister Francois Latortue announced that an unnamed Swiss bank had agreed to freeze a $367 million account belonging to the Duvaliers. The Haitian government hopes to recover the money, which is part of the fortune that Baby...