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...industrialized world, only Japan has a higher rate of investment and savings. Yet the very success of France's state-led capitalist economy has heightened the appeal of state-led socialism. Explains a Paris-based banking analyst: "The Socialist economic program represents one of those periodic redistributions that occur in economies that have been remarkably successful and prosperous. The French people have voiced their approval for a leftist majority precisely because they feel for the first time in memory they can afford...
...majority of heart disease deaths occur before a patient reaches a hospital [June 1]. Significant improvement in the heart attack victim's survival rate has been reported when electrical treatment in conjunction with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered within eight minutes of cardiac arrest. Wide availability of a device enabling medically authorized lay people to give appropriate electrical treatment may have enormous life-saving potential...
...posed the question of whether the U.S. had any means at all of controlling the maverick actions of an increasingly independent nation that depends ultimately for its existence on the U.S. Or failing that, did the U.S. have any way of dissociating itself from those actions when they did occur...
Since 1976 some 25 unions have been ap proved by the government, and many others are unofficially recognized by employers. Disruptive labor disputes now occur at a rate of two or three times a week. In the final days of the anniversary celebration, black unions demonstrated their strength by calling simultaneous walkouts at the Ford and General Motors assembly plants in Port Elizabeth. The cost in lost production: $2 million...
...primary point of contention is whether Harvard should act to accelerate the assimilation of women that otherwise will occur gradually, and the incorporation of minorities that seems likely to occur even more slowly. Based on the beated debate over small steps in that direction, like the minority and women faculty study that provoked such sharp disagreement this winter, such issues seem likely to continue to spark controversy indefinitely...