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...titles to replace worn books and to enhance library holdings with non-current books. Added together, these titles represent over 17 per cent of all titles bought for the two libraries during the year. Our inability to acquire these books through normal distribution channels would in time seriously impair library services, especially at the reserve desk...
...Tacitly acknowledging the substantial role of so-called third parties-Blue Cross and Blue Shield, government agencies -in setting health policy. This was done by dropping the clause barring a physician from working "under terms or conditions which tend to interfere with or impair the free and complete exercise of his medical judgment or skill." Says Todd: "Interference? Medicare, Medicaid, insurance companies-all in some way tell a physician what...
...Soviet military faces some problems that could impair its capabilities in extended combat. One difficulty is mounting ethnic tension as more non-Slavic minorities join the ranks. Name-calling is common and fights are frequent. Another problem is the reluctance of Soviet officers to take initiative. They have been trained to prize iron discipline, they believe in conformity to a highly centralized command system, and?above all?they follow orders. But on a modern battlefield, communications can easily be cut and unit formations disrupted. Under these conditions, Soviet officers might not be able to take advantage of sudden opportunities...
...fourth of the planet's population. "I disagree completely--and still do--with President Nixon's initiative to 'normalize' relations with the People's Republic of China," he writes. By looking with favor on the reds, he explained, we gave them "the political and economic muscle to seriously impair the security and prosperity of the seventeen million people on the island." And, he notes, with a tinge of sadness for the days when America had the guts to stand by its word, "this is a strange way to reward a loyal ally whose hard-working and creative citizens have made...
...left-wing socialists who constitute an influential minority within Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. Says one of its most prominent members, former Chancellor Willy Brandt: "We must not be more American than the Americans." As half of a divided nation, West Germany is reluctant to pursue policies that could impair the ability of its citizens to visit their relatives in East Germany or that could once again raise tensions around Berlin. In the aftermath of Bonn's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, Moscow forced cancellation...