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From the lowliest hospital employee to the loftiest hospital trustee, everyone is aware of what Kay calls "a whole new era" for the health care industry...
...prospecting in those hills, we might usefully recall that fool's gold is much more common and that gold has to be panned for, dug out from other substances. "All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence," wrote Herman Melville, one of the loftiest and most eloquent of souls. Working himself up to an ever more thunderous cry of affirmation, he went on, "Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is the only Voice...
...should have acted long ago to lessen its dependence on foreign oil. Of course, it should do everything it can in that direction now. So what? For the immediate future, a reliable supply of oil at affordable prices is vital to any modern economy. It just is, and the loftiest moral and ecological disapproval cannot change that brute fact...
...week's end traders pushed the dollar to a 2 1/2-year high of 1.977 West German marks. That pierced the 1.90-mark ceiling that the U.S. and its trading partners reportedly agreed to in a 1987 accord. In Tokyo the dollar's high reached 139.88 yen, its loftiest level in 16 months and just below the 140-yen ceiling that the allies set. The U.S. and its partners are determined to do what they can to slam on the brakes -- but whether their efforts would slow down the runaway dollar remained an open question...
...first it sounded like Pollyanna Day at the United Nations. An international parade of prizewinners gathered on the Grand Palais stage at the 40th Cannes Film Festival to pick up their scrolls and mouth the loftiest banalities. One young filmmaker from Soviet Georgia thanked "all the inhabitants of that big wonderful country called Cinema." A Japanese director announced, "I would like to work for peace." Wim Wenders, who picked up the director's prize for his daunting, sentimental fantasy The Wings of Desire, ) said, "If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world." Everyone...