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Tuesday. Another day, another book by Virginia Woolf. Dead for 41 years, yet her output still rolling off the presses almost faster than one can read it. Leave aside the novels, biographies and critical collections in her own lifetime. What about the nearly 4,000 letters in six volumes that finished coming out in 1980? The countless essays and fugitive pieces being sorted and shuffled in various miscellanies? And now these reams of diaries, to be concluded in a fifth volume. What energy! What fluency! After writing final words of The Common Reader, Second Series, she jotted in a diary...
...changes in the U.S. economy as another factor behind the high hopes for stable prices. These include: increased foreign competition in industries like autos and steel; deregulation, which has led to more price competition in airlines and trucking; and, of great importance, prospects for renewed growth in productivity, or output per man-hour...
There seems to be growing confidence in the business and financial communities that inflation can be held to about 6% during the next year, and perhaps even reduced below that. Such an accomplishment would permit interest rates to continue declining, thus helping to revive industrial output. Reason: lenders would no longer feel that they had to demand high rates to guard against having their returns eaten up by renewed price boosts. In fact, the drop in inflation seems to have been one reason for the interest-rate slashes that have already occurred...
...role in their development). Certain of these cells help defend the body against viruses, foreign tissue (like organ transplants) and the growth of cancer cells. There are several types, including helper T cells, which promote the production of antibodies against foreign invaders, and suppressor T cells, which reduce antibody output. Healthy individuals have twice as many helpers as suppressors. In AIDS victims, the ratio is reversed; helper cells are depleted. No one knows what happens to these cells, but New York Immunologist Roger Enlow has a theory: "Just as hepatitis B virus preferentially attacks liver cells, it is probable...
...embarrassing." He says that his output as a writer began to suffer the moment she appeared to him: "You've ruined my work from the start, with your utterly banal, pifflingly novelettish ideas...