Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noted that the "best and quickest solution to this whole problem would be for Donald Trump to buy the New York Post." Trump, a real estate developer, has a flair for promotion and for getting under Koch's skin. Kennedy insists that his anti-Murdoch measure was designed to prevent the FCC from unilaterally repealing the cross- ownership rule the way it recently abolished the "fairness doctrine" requiring broadcasters to air opposing viewpoints. Murdoch had the "fix in" with the FCC, claims Kennedy. Now "he can keep his newspaper or he can keep his broadcasting station...
...last November, are refusing to participate. Instead, they have called for an election boycott that is supported by some 50 civic, religious and community associations throughout Haiti. Of the 22 candidates registered for the race, twelve were associates of the former Duvalier dictatorship; under the new constitution, that should prevent them from running for public office for a decade. All twelve were disqualified from the November contest. At the end of last week Namphy, in an apparent bid to lend the elections credibility, again sidelined the Duvalierist candidates. Namphy's personal favorite is Gerard Phillippe Auguste, a little-known agronomist...
...until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller, chief pediatrician at New England Medical Center in Boston: "Parents will have to pay more attention to what appears to be a simple cold...
...case of remarkably appropriate timing, a presidential commission recommends bold regulatory action to prevent a recurrence of Black Monday just as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 140 points, its second worst day since the crash. -- On world currency markets, the dollar moves in a startling new direction: upward. -- GM wows 'em at the Waldorf...
...Vietnamese seem enthusiastic about American tourism, the U.S. Government is distinctly less so. Washington does not officially recognize the regime in Hanoi, and the Treasury Department enforces rules that hobble travelers and prevent tour operators from advertising. Members of the Vietnamese community in the U.S. may feel further discouraged from making a visit: supporters of Nguyen Cao Ky, former Vice President of South Viet Nam now in exile in California, insist that a trip to the homeland abets the enemy...