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...example, when 1.27 million West Germans were unemployed, the federal government paid out nearly $6.7 billion in various jobless benefits. Last year the total was around $9.7 billion. Similarly, in 1970 West Germany paid out about $48 billion, or more than 16% of the country's entire output, for health care and pension schemes/In 1980 the total had reached $136 billion, or nearly 22%. Says Herbert Giersch, director of the Institute for World Economics at Kiel and a member of TIME'S European Board of Economists: "The country's social welfare net needs basic structural changes. Public...
...implanted and lapsed into what Berenson termed "acute brain syndrome," characterized by "delirium, decreased alertness, severe memory loss and confusion." The condition, she believed, was organic rather than emotional, perhaps brought on by the sudden increase in blood supply to a brain "that had become used to low cardiac output." When questioned, Clark would "look perplexed," Berenson said. "Sometimes he would not know he had had surgery or what it was for." Clark often appeared too discouraged to try to speak, but at times he was lucid enough to be painfully aware of his condition. "My mind is shot...
This month's edition of Commentary has a review of Gandhi which is; like much of Commentary's output, viciously irreverent, openly combative and extraordinarily well-written. Richard Grenier, who has been the journal's regular moviegoer for a little over four years, takes a hatchet to the movie with great glee...
...Harvard hockey team held the ECAC's most feared attack to a single goal--the Engineers' lowest output of the season as it cruised to a 5-1 victory in the first game of the two-game ECAC quarterfinal series...
Last year, for the first time, the review also limited its output to one issue, but Gutienez said that decision was the result of insufficient funds...