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Because chlamydia is easy to treat once it is diagnosed, the key to preventing its spread--and its sometimes serious consequences--is better detection. That could be provided by two recently developed diagnostic tests that are both inexpensive and rapid. One, called MicroTrak, has been marketed for a year by the Syva Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., and provides a diagnosis in less than half an hour. The other, devised by Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill., takes from 3 1/2 to four hours but is better suited for testing large numbers of people. It became available nationwide last week...
...intensity of that contest varies widely in Latin America, the home of 42% of the world's 810 million Catholics. Strikingly diverse in political circumstances, geography and ethnic makeup, the countries of the area share staggering social dislocations caused by rapid modernization, near intolerable combinations of inflation, unemployment and foreign debt, and enormous economic disparities. Says Radomiro Tomic Romero, a former Christian Democratic candidate for President in still dictatorial Chile: "We see a region crossed with injustice. Then we ask ourselves: Is this what God wanted...
They are the entrepreneurs, and their current success can be threatening to established corporations. At a time of rapid technological change, young, fleet-footed firms with a new product or a new way of selling can quickly take over markets. Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea...
...this kind of operation: intrapreneurship. Gifford Pinchot III, 42, a management consultant from New Haven, Conn., coined the term and has written a book about it called Intrapreneuring, or Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (Harper & Row, $19.95). Writes Pinchot: "The more rapidly American business learns to use the entrepreneurial talent inside large organizations, the better. The alternative in a time of rapid change is stagnation and decline...
...begun to recover its previous level. Defense spending took 9.7% of G.N.P. in 1960 and declined to only 5.3% of G.N.P. by 1980. Since then it has increased to 6.5% of G.N.P. Fourth, there has been a sharp decline in income taxes as a share of G.N.P. and a rapid rise in the payroll taxes used to finance Social Security and Medicare. While payroll taxes rose from 2.1% of G.N.P. in 1960 to 5.7% in 1984, all other taxes fell from 16.4% of G.N.P...