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...days later, Ford was hospitalized for a mild stroke, but he completely recovered after a few weeks...
...however, Mobutu is. credited with restoring the Congolese economy by stabilizing the currency and turning the national treasury's $265 million deficit into a $250 million surplus. Mobutu's one-man rule has worked so well, in fact, that many foreign diplomats, mindful that he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, worry about what would happen if he were no longer in command. They know full well that the Congo's new-found tranquillity could disappear quickly in a moment of national crisis. Only three weeks ago, a small band of Simba rebels seized...
...federal financial managers last year severely restricted the money supply in order to hold back inflation, they knew that there would be some business failures-though they hardly expected the world's largest transportation company to go under. By most measures, the recession so far has been mild, and it has succeeded in breaking an inflationary psychology. In May, the wholesale price index rose at an annual rate of 1.2%, after four straight months of 3.6% gains. Profit-starved companies have been reducing their capital spending and inventories, and such moves should help relieve the squeeze on corporate cash...
Long sleepers, in contrast, checked out as nonconform ist, shy, somewhat with drawn, and melancholy. Reports Hartmann: "Almost all showed evidence of some in hibition in the spheres of sexual or aggressive functioning." Some betrayed "mild anxiety neuroses" and depression. Moreover, they slept fitfully, waked often and typically got up with a mild case of the morning blahs...
...common knowledge that alcohol, in moderation, has therapeutic effects-as a releaser of emotional tensions, for instance, and as a mild sedative. Drink also serves society through the simple but significant camaraderie of the cup. In a recent experiment, Dr. Ching-piao Chien, a senior psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, tested this function of alcohol on geriatric patients. Chien staged his study in the hospital sunroom, which had been converted for the experiment into a pub. His subjects were 40 male inmates (average age 73) suffering from depression or mental deterioration stemming from senility...