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...might be interested in experimenting with new ways of doing things runs the risk of failing to meet his assigned production or delivery quota, as traumatic a worry to a Soviet manager as the fear of red ink is to an American corporate executive. Observes Haverford College Sovietologist Holland Hunter: "Everyone finds the traditional way of doing things-no innovation-the most congenial. The supreme challenge is not to rock the boat. New styling or technology would require change, and that would inevitably mean at least some faltering in production...
...Holland, for example, Dutch television officials said that they had been pressured by their government not to show the film, but when it was broadcast on schedule, the Saudis took no action. The Swedes played it safe from the start. A private video company acquired rights to the film, then shelved it to protect Swedish business interests...
...says Dr. Ernest Borden, a cancer specialist at the University of Wisconsin, "we're only about 2% of the way along toward widespread clinical application." And should interferon become plentiful, it would probably be used as a supplement to, rather than a replacement for existing treatment. Warns Dr. James Holland, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "There are no breakthroughs in cancer treatment." Then he adds: "Come back in a year and ask me about interferon then. I bet I'll have some really exciting things to tell...
...bishops will also seek to revive the practice, nearly extinct in Holland, of individual confession...
...bishops said they would forbid laymen and -women to perform certain priestly functions, including baptizing children (except in emergencies). Because of the wide opposition to celibacy in Holland and a worsening shortage of priests, there are now some 280 full-time "pastoral cooperators" performing such tasks...