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...immediate effect of the Watergate denouement was to prompt an almost global wave of admiration for America's institutions. "It can't be true," said Simon Haj, 31, a Beirut taxi driver. "You need a tank to remove a President in the Arab world." Said Brazil's leading political pundit, Carlos Castello Branco, just before the resignation: "Nixon was never morally smaller than now, but the U.S. was never morally greater. If the U.S. had no other justification for world leadership, this alone would entitle it to present itself as a leader and inspirer in a world...
...anesthesiology and first female full professor. In 1952 she perfected the Apgar Score, an evaluation of five physical functions-heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color-made within the first minute of a child's life, and again five minutes later. A low score is a prompt identification of a need for special care...
...corporate taxes and expressed growing concern about the disruptive impact of towering interest rates on money markets. For the first time, the President expressed some uneasiness that the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy might tip the economy into recession. That, he feared, might prompt Congress to push for more expansionary policies and to pass "silly" legislation that would further fuel inflation. At week's end the President took several of his economic advisers to San Clemente for a round of conferences in preparation for a major economic policy speech. A prime problem is how to rein...
...means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect is present, the muscle contracts abnormally. In families with a his tory of malignant hyperthermia, the complex test is well worth the trouble. Without prompt treatment, the condition is fatal in six out often cases...
...allegations drew a cascade of prompt denials from both U.S. and West German officials, who suggested, plausibly, that Capital had been the victim of a hoax concocted by right-wing intelligence agents hoping to further discredit Bonn's Social Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...