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...turn of the century most or almost most American children will have lived some part of their lives in poverty," said the senator, a former Harvard government professor. This situation might prompt "the country to look up," he told the Kennedy School forum audience...
Rapidly rising medical costs will prompt health care providers and consumers to become more cost conscious, which will cause major changes in the provision of health care in the 1990s, a group of Harvard experts predicted yesterday at a symposium entitled "Health Care: Opportunities and Burdens...
...turn of the century most or almost most American children will have lived some part of their lives in poverty," the senator, a former Harvard government professor, said. This situation might prompt "the country to look up," he told the Kennedy School forum audience...
...goodwill gesture, the government released a list of 8,551 people who have been arrested since the current state of emergency was declared on June 12. Some critics claimed that the real number of detainees was closer to 12,000, but the official figure was high enough to prompt an outcry from the small parliamentary opposition. The list, declared the Progressive Federal Party's Helen Suzman, was a "terrifying indictment of the government's inability to maintain law-and-order...
This first novel by a previously unknown author has managed to climb quickly onto best-seller lists. Such a feat is infrequent enough to prompt the question why. True, The Good Mother garnered some enthusiastic reviews, and the publisher, evidently sensing a winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what...