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...drive for harder work was greatly intensified by the harrowing recession of 1981-82. Almost five years after that experience ended, its effects linger on. Corporate cost-cutting programs begun during the recession have been continued and even intensified since, under the lash of foreign competition and the fear of hostile takeovers. Companies long known for keeping workers on the payroll through thick and thin have changed their policy: AT&T, for instance, has laid off 36,600 workers since January 1984. The result, says Alan Draper, coordinator of the Work in Society program at St. Lawrence University in Canton...
...University Hospital in Mineola, Long Island. "You're exhausted, and you are dealing with two kinds of criteria for how you act." To add to the burdens, today's hospital patients tend, as a group, to be more sick than ever before. Technology has enabled extremely ill patients to linger on the brink of death for days at a time. And changes in Medicare reimbursement rules have led hospitals to release patients earlier than they used to, so that almost every bed is occupied by a very sick person...
...With a gait as clangorous as "Duke" Wayne's, he walks down the mean streets of tomorrow's Detroit, scaring felons with the cool metallic whisper: "Your move, creep." Who is this electronic enforcer? Flint Beastwood? Not quite. Because somewhere inside his mind's computer circuitry, images linger: of a smiling wife, of an adoring son, of the too human policeman he once might have been. Before he became . . . RoboCop...
...some questionable practices linger, thanks to the comparative laxity of Mexican drug-regulatory laws and the predatory ways of get-rich-quick doctors. Until recently, thousands of Americans crossed the border for the sole purpose of buying Redotex, a potent Mexican-made diet prescription not licensed for sale in the U.S.; some pill-dispensing physicians became millionaires almost overnight. "They would send young boys out to tout for patients," recalls a Mexican physician in Nuevo Laredo. "Some doctors would see as many as 100 patients on a weekend. They would call them in five at a time and sometimes dispense...
Although the election victory was a sizable step in consolidating Aquino's power, serious obstacles remain. Beyond the chronic problems of poverty, unemployment and a sputtering economy, doubts linger about the loyalty of the military; a majority of the country's soldiers apparently voted for the opposition. Defense Minister Rafael Ileto discounted the importance of this, $ but did not rule out the possibility that some disgruntled soldiers might be persuaded to take part in yet another plot against the President. The military's displeasure centers on the charge that Aquino has been too soft on the 18-year-old Communist...