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...Government professors are all reluctant to peer into the crystal ball and predict just how many appointment Reagan will get to make, but it doesn't take an actuarial table to realize that the ideological balance of power in the Court is at stake. Of the nine justices five-Blackmun, Brennan Burger, Marshall and Powell-are 75 years or older and of these, everyone except Burger comes form the moderate and liberal faction of the court. Should the President get to make two appointments, a reasonable estimate, the Court's teeem drift to the right could become a stampede...
...laboratory sued Cambridge this spring when the city prohibited the testing and manufacture of nerve gas. That suit is still pending before Middlesex Superior Court, and city officials predict it may go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
However, Tilney said at the time of the operation, only 50 percent of heart transplant recipients could be expected to survive. "There are too many variables to be able to predict whether or not a patient will accept the new heart, but Boucher was moribund; he would have died [much earlier] without the operation...
BEHIND ALL of these problems looms the question of whether local efforts would remain test cases or would spread beyond a few isolated communities. To predict this would require weighing negative voting trends like the rejection of Proposition 15 and Reagan's reelection, against the public opinion polls that have supposedly supported handgun control. The weight of the negative voting trends has tipped the scales against the Coalition's plan. The shift to local level politics would create a vulnerable focus for the NRA's politically powerful, three million-membered, $52 million machine--a focus that would only grate...
Minnetonka, the Minnesota firm that developed Softsoap, last May introduced the first pump toothpaste, Check-Up. Now Colgate-Palmolive is following with Colgate in a pump, and Lever Bros, has put out a pump version of Aim. Procter & Gamble started test-marketing a Crest pump in August. Packaging experts predict a tough battle over which brand's pump design is superior. Crest's model, for example, uses valves to extrude the paste, while Colgate's design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have...