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Sholem Postel, deputy director of UHS and chairman of the quality-assurance panel, said. "We don't think it would be prudent to set in motion an investigation which could conceivably be used in a litigational process." The investigation will take place regardless of the appellate court's finding. Postel added...
...synfuels. Says Clifton C. Garvin. chairman of Exxon, which has committed $1 billion to such projects worldwide: "By the turn of the century, we think this country will get about 4 million or 5 million barrels a day of liquids from shale oil and coal. It's prudent to develop a reasonable-sized synthetic industry, in part because of national security, and in part because of economics...
Most experts on fetal alcohol syndrome believe that abstinence is the most prudent course, but a few are concerned that the official warning was based on inconclusive evidence. Dr. Henry Rosett of Boston University School of Medicine notes that many obstetricians believe that small amounts of alcohol are harmless and relaxing, and they allow pregnant patients a glass of wine with the evening meal. Dr. Joe Simpson of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago worries about instilling guilt in women who take an occasional drink: "Even if the studies are correct, it need not follow that every woman...
Defense Secretary Weinberger, meanwhile, reiterated his customary harsh assessment of Soviet intentions and capabilities in a speech he gave at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
...that the Government must "lick inflation first." Then the gold standard would provide the needed "discipline for politicians and bureaucrats" to maintain stable prices. He and other gold advocates believe that without such a system, governments will always fall to the temptation of inflating their currencies rather than taking prudent anti-inflation steps...