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Some former Radcliffe students say they felt vaguely dissatisfied, but "we weren't conscious of a national pattern," says Myra Lakoff Rich '61, now a history professor at Colorado...
...individuals who are prime candidates for heart attacks. But after 25 years, that portrait turns out to be highly debatable. At a May 9-10 conference at the University of Kansas, behavioral and medical scientists reached no agreement on whether the subject of the meeting, the Type-A behavior pattern, still exists. "We're all struggling," said Psychologist Larry Scherwitz of the University of California at San Francisco. "We have a concept that's not working. We're trying to find out what's wrong...
...shop, where the floor is covered in smooth white pebbles and a fountain bubbles up quietly as if from some deep Zen wellspring. Mannequins were hung with virtuoso variations of dresses and skirts cut from polyester satin and jersey, colored pale red, musky gold and worn white, in a pattern transferred directly from photos of rusted iron. "I'm neither anti-Western nor pro-Eastern," Mori explains. "I'm interested in making clothes that bring out the originality of the individual." His dresses are unemphatic tokens of elegance, breezy bits of hotshot craftsmanship with a certain sophistication of spirit that...
Several factors are driving ad agencies into a pattern of expansion by acquisition. For one, industry profits dipped 1.5% last year, in part because the economy was sluggish and client companies curbed their advertising budgets as a cost-cutting measure. In response, many ad agencies are resorting to mergers as a way of sustaining their revenue growth...
...jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously, a black defendant alleging the biased exclusion of black jurors had to show that the prosecutor invariably used peremptory challenges to exclude blacks in case after case. Now, said Powell, if a defendant can show a pattern of biased challenges in his trial alone, the prosecutor must demonstrate a nonracial motive for the challenges...