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...trouble in Poland began with a rise in the price of meat. But in China the economic situation was much worse than in Poland, and yet last year we had to raise the price of eight varieties of food. We did do a lot of political and economic groundwork to handle the matter...
...three, working independently, have been studying a group of genes that are intimately linked to the body's immune response. Snell, 76, of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., laid the groundwork with studies using mice. Attempting to transplant first tumor cells and then normal tissue, he discovered that the success of the operations depended on protein molecules on the surface of cells. These proteins, called antigens, have characteristic shapes and structures, but combinations differ from individual to individual. Snell found that the more antigens the subjects had in common, the more likely was the graft to take...
...social stratification that exists in the Soviet Union obviously conflicts with the ideal of equality, which Marx called "the groundwork of Communism." Such an inconsistency was denounced by Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas in his 1957 classic The New Class, and elitism ranks high among the ideological sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument...
...federalist court, and now it's up to Mr. Trudeau to put some content into [his] promises." True to his word, Trudeau last week dispatched Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien on a whirlwind tour of Canada's ten provincial capitals to lay the groundwork for a conference of premiers and the Prime Minister, which could take place as early as July. Its purpose: to seek a consensus on how to change Canada's constitution, the British North America Act of 1867. In a televised speech from the House of Commons, Trudeau set three conditions...
...superstar capabilities: most mortals must choose one or the other, making the second choice an avocation, more than a profession. (In that rare category of scholar-athletes, Harvard draws a fairly good proportion of the people: but such wonders prove too few and far between to provide the solid groundwork for an outstanding sports program...