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Daniel Poneman '78 also had planned on writing a thesis for several years, and he got a head start last summer when he spent nine weeks traveling through Europe, doing research for his topic, the progress of nuclear energy programs in West European nations. Partially funded by grants from the Center for European Studies and the Center for International Affairs, Poneman interviewed government officials, members of international agencies involved with nuclear power, and members of the press...
Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...
...Vatican show signs of Paul's flagging energy. Says one secretariat official: "Papers that we urgently require are delayed. Often we have to phone the Pope's secretary for instructions right on the eve of an important meeting-instructions we have requested weeks before." It is nine years since Paul has issued an encyclical (the last was his controversial birth control decree...
...made to gather signatures in church grounds, but church employees who owe their jobs to the government break up the crowds and chase away the petitioners. When Kozulin and fellow church members made a similar effort a decade ago, he was threatened with imprisonment in a lunatic asylum and nine organizers lost their jobs...
They are usually open only nine hours a day, provide patients with nothing more to eat than a little orange juice and crackers, and shuttle them in and out of the operating room so fast they hardly realize that they have been under the knife. Surgical factories? Not quite. In the past few years, more than 70 such private, one-day surgical centers have opened in the U.S. Undertaking minor surgery of all kinds-from face lifts to vasectomies to repair of hernias-the clinics discharge patients almost as soon as they shake off their postoperative grogginess. The only radical...