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...American Society of Pathology, which has held semi-annual conventions for 30 years, offers the largest continuing educational program of any medical society in the world, Dr. George F. Stevenson, scientific director of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, said yesterday. Nationwide, nearly 1000 volunteer faculty members will attend the convention, along with 8000 physicians...
MATEP, the largest co-generation plant in the U.S., is designed to supply energy to 13 area institutions including the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Public Health, and the Affiliated Hospitals Center...
...political dilemma: labor unions, whose support Carter needs for reelection, claim they take jobs from U.S. workers. On the other hand, the millions of Mexican immigrants add to the nation's fast-growing and generally Democratic population of Hispanics; they will probably displace blacks as the nation's largest minority by the next decade. In New York last week, López Portillo met with a coalition of Spanish-speaking leaders, who urged him to put pressure on Carter for a relaxation of U.S. immigration laws. If Carter does not, the leaders implied, he might lose the solid Hispanic support that...
...P.R.I.'s middle-class supporters, who saw their savings and life-styles threatened. Mexico's support for a 1976 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism provoked a short-lived boycott of Mexican resorts by American Jewish tourists, thereby staggering an industry that is the nation's largest employer (460,000 jobs). Echeverria's unpopularity had its impact on the election of his successor. In an expression of discontent with the P.R.I., voters ignored the party's customary flamboyant campaign; only 50% of them bothered to cast their ballots...
Last week U.P.I. President Roderick Beaton announced a plan to put his wire service back in the black by ripping a page from A.P.'s ticker: turning U.P.I. into a cooperative of sorts. U.P.I. has invited more than 100 of its largest newspaper and broadcasting clients to become limited partners in the wire service. Under the scheme, Scripps and Hearst would retain 10% of the new company and stay on as managing partners. The remaining 90% would be sold in 45 shares, and no single client could own more than 10% of the firm. If successful, the restructuring would...