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...high political figures as long as 20 years ago without noting any later ineffectiveness among them. Some psychiatrists even say that Eagleton may be less likely to break under pressure than those who have never undergone such therapy. A period of depression, the A.P.A. panel insists, does not permanently impair a person's judgment...
Equally important for undergraduates is the Union's central demand to maintain teaching fellows' income. Cuts in pay or increases in the workload of teaching fellows would seriously impair the system of undergraduate tutorials, decreasing the quality and intimacy of Harvard education. The Union has made it clear that its salary demands must not be met through an increase in undergraduate tuition or class size...
...much weight to factors which should have been subordinated to an overriding goal of locating candidates of the highest quality. This presidential conduct, resulting in the inclusion in the list of some plainly unqualified persons, demeans the Court and risks undermining public respect for it so as to impair its performance of its crucially important role. Some of the persons named may turn out to merit serious consideration. The flawed process which generated their candidacies argues, however, for the most meticulous and searching examination by the ABA Committee and the Senate...
Silver Clips. Donovan's team cut around the appendage, taking out the arteries that supplied blood to the incomplete twin. After that, they found to their relief that the removal would not impair the patient's circulation. They next separated and took out the duplicate bladder. Then, after marking the limits of Enrique's own pelvis with silver clips, they cut away the extra pelvis and hip joints and removed the growth. The procedure left ample skin flaps for suturing...
Oldenburg, it was feared, might impair the playland's image as "a family-oriented operation." Fortunately, the Gemini company (TIME, Jan. 18) stepped in to sponsor the icebag. Puffing and rearing to its full 18-ft. height like some cross between Mount Fuji, a tomato and a dinosaur, it has turned out to be one of the key works in Oldenburg's brilliant career...