Word: pittsburgh
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Taking note of the strain acid rain has caused in U.S.-Canada relations, Reagan acknowledged his concern to Trudeau. But since then the Administration has only reluctantly confronted the issue, contending that further studies are necessary. At an acid-rain symposium in Pittsburgh in October, Environmental Protection Administrator Anne Gorsuch said, "Our experience of recent years should teach us not to rush in with quick fixes where we know we have an inadequate understanding of existing conditions." Meanwhile the Canadian government has been trying to persuade the Administration to change its position on legislation that would enforce...
Chicago 4, Pittsburgh...
...twelve years or more. But if cash was all that the players gained, the embarrassing likelihood is that this deal could have been struck weeks ago. In the delicate final week of negotiations, the catalyst-"escape valve," Commissioner Pete Rozelle called him-was Paul Martha, 40, a former Pittsburgh Steeler now a Pittsburgh attorney. Martha is a friend of Steeler President Dan Rooney, who had a large voice in management's negotiations and a much softer voice than Chief Negotiator Jack Donlan's. Martha also has a friendly relationship with Garvey. "Paul went back and forth," Rozelle said...
...heart becomes available. At New York's Montefiore Medical Center, 25 out of 30 patients have died over the past two years while waiting for a new lung. Infant donors are rarest of all. "Pediatric organs are more priceless than gold," says Brian Broznick of the University of Pittsburgh Transplant Foundation...
...parents had the resources and skills to find their own donor, and the donor's family specified that the liver of their child should go to Jamie, and Jamie alone. Once the organ was made available, doctors did use the A.M.A. guidelines. There were four babies at Pittsburgh equally suited to the transplant, but none had a greater need than Jamie. In addition, doctors at Pittsburgh were already busy with a liver transplant and could not handle a second one. "If another child had been in greater need, we would have had a dilemma," says Jamie's surgeon...