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...Communists and Socialists characteristically attributed their shortfall not to Giscard, but to one another. Communist Party Boss Georges Marchais claimed that the left's score would have been higher had the Socialists agreed to Communist proposals for updating the left's Common Program, including a sweeping nationalization of industry. Mitterrand offered his own explanation for the poor showing: "The Communist Party, acting in its own partisan interests, had launched an unjust and inopportune polemical attack on the Socialists that broke the dynamism of the union of the left...
...just hope they don't read the papers, because a lot of their wives are going to be around reminding them of that 38.8% [prospective coal wage-and-benefit increase] over three years." In addition companies will also bid up the price of nonunion coal, switch to higher-priced fuels or make up for lost work by scheduling costly overtime when the strike ends. Those moves could boost inflation by as much as one-tenth...
...billion this year, increasing to $5 billion in 1980, to expand and modernize. Murphy aims to increase G.M.'s already large share of auto markets abroad-notably in Latin America, Africa and Asia. But G.M. will invest 85% of its capital budget in the U.S., a slightly higher proportion than in past years. By next year's end it will add 30,000 jobs to its domestic employment rolls, which is particularly pleasing to the chairman, who was unemployed for a year during the Depression 1930s. Says Murphy, in the flat tones of Chicago, where he grew...
...chair in the hall's steamy conference room as some 200 members of the faculty of arts and sciences convened for a highly charged debate. The topic: a complete overhaul of the undergraduate general education curriculum, which for the past 30 years has served as a model for higher education...
...patient refused to endure vaginal delivery. Now, there has been a sharp upswing in the number of caesareans. Last year at least one out of every ten babies in the U.S. was delivered surgically. At major medical centers, which tend to handle more problem pregnancies, the share is even higher. The University Hospitals of Cleveland at present deliver 12% of all babies by C-section (as a caesarean is called in hospital corridors). At the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the figure...