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...Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities, in Lapeer, Mich. Oakdale officials told the NIMH that as far as they knew, the research never took place; the only subjects Breuning was officially authorized to study at the time were goldfish and rats. How was the psychologist able to persuade others to lend their names to his work? Says Thomas Gualtieri, who helped blow the whistle on Breuning: "He would come up with marvelous data that would corroborate everything you had ever written. It was an excellent way of co-opting co-authors...
...expertise. Herron admits to "being a classicist" and adds, "I don't like prolonged periods of working with texts that are apt to bring up what is emotional in myself." Authors such as Alice Walker tend to tie themselves up with intense emotion where classic writers like Homer lend themselves to a more intellectual reading of the text, she says...
Huntington's candidacy has been vigorously opposed by a group of Academy members led by Yale Professor of Mathematics Serge Lang. These Academy members have said that Huntington's work is pseudo-scientific and uses the illusion of science to lend credence to what are merely his own political opinions...
Barnes' tenure was relatively brief but superheated. After becoming chairman in 1981, the Harvard-educated lawyer pumped Mellon loans to energy companies in the Southwest and beefed up its real estate portfolio in Dallas and other oil towns. The lending and real estate business foundered along with OPEC: energy-related loans now account for more than half of Mellon's $1.45 billion in write-offs and nonperforming assets. Mellon also has $178 million in repossessed properties, a sixfold increase from what it owned in late 1984. Bad loans to Mexico and Brazil further crimped the bank's strained resources...
Stark need and the Communist insurgency have given Aquino a severe challenge on two fronts: achieving both economic recovery and political stability. Economically, Aquino has fought back with, among other things, an adjustment program negotiated last October with the International Monetary Fund. The IMF promised to lend the Philippines roughly $330 million while insisting on limitations to monetary growth and fiscal restraint along with basic changes in the country's protectionist economy...