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...enters the work force and examines her anxieties about men, sex and love. She learns that she is as much of a person without a partner as she was with one???perhaps even more of a person." That breeziness may just be emblematic of a generally renewed spirit, but somehow one prefers the rejoinder to a persistent cigarette ad printed boldly on a T shirt: I HAVEN'T COME A LONG WAY, AND I'M NOT A BABY...
...puppet in the eyes of its neighbors?and its own people. President Anwar Sadat, the closest U.S. ally in the Muslim world, has said flatly that he does not want a U.S. base in Egypt, and no other country in the region seems willing to offer one???except Israel, where the U.S. would not want to station troops, for fear of further angering moderate Arab countries...
...what they call "economic rounds," studying patients' bills to make sure they are not padded. At one such meeting a few weeks ago, a slide of a bill was projected on a screen. A tumor specialist quickly asked why the hospital had ordered two computerized blood tests when one???the cheaper one, at that?would have sufficed. In a very different cost-cutting program, New York University Medical Center has designated 104 rooms in a new building for a "cooperative care" experiment in which patients who are well on their way to recovery but cannot yet leave the hospital...
...point he made most emphatically was a dramatic one???and one that Moscow expected, and feared, would be his main message to President Carter: that Sino-American rapprochement should be turned into an explicit anti-Soviet alliance. Stressing Sino-American ties, Teng argued that the two nations share a common destiny and should unite with other countries against the Soviet Union. He said that Soviet activities around the Mediterranean littoral, in Africa and in Asia should cause concern to all nations. He derided the value of the proposed SALT II treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and demonstrated...
True, the Government also reported that in the second quarter real gross national product?the nation's output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation ?rose at an annual rate of 8.7%. That rate is obviously unsustainable, however, and a slowdown has already begun. Though no one???not even Author Paul Erdman?really believes the apocalyptic prophecies in his bestselling novel The Crash of 79, some serious forecasters fear a genuine slump next year...