Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Krantz sure knows how to dash a childhood dream. He is editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
...survival rates one year after transplantation rose from 32% to 70% for liver patients and from 54% to 77% for kidney patients. "By early 1980," recalls Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading transplant surgeon, "we had a sense that there was a tremendous change in outlook in both kidneys and livers, and that enthusiasm quickly spread to the heart." Cyclosporine is highly toxic, however, and researchers have begun to look for alternatives. Ideally, they foresee a therapy that would prevent rejection but also persuade the immune system to tolerate a transplanted organ even after treatment is halted...
...present the outlook is not very bright," Olmsted said. "Consider the combination of chronic shortness in budgets and bureacratic face-saving tries for quick-fixes and cheap effects, and all this physical deterioration and it's just inevitable that it will have effects...
...outlook is improving for a relaxation of some of the restrictions on the communication of science and technology that have been imposed during the past decade," says a report released late last month by Shattuck and Harvard Policy Analyst Muriel Morisey Spence...
...most of us are more complex than that. Most of us bring a little bit of baggage to each Opening Day--that sense of history that completely determines our outlook on the game...