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...Australia so that it could compete worldwide with GM and Ford. But in recent years the foreign operations have brought Chrysler more pain than profit, so now the financially beset smallest member of the U.S. Big Three seems well on its way to turning itself into something much rarer: an ex-multinational...
Since the beginning of their partnership more than a decade ago, Steptoe and Edwards are believed to have attempted in-vitro fertilization and implantation in hundreds of women. In perhaps half of these cases, eggs were fertilized. But successful implantations have been rarer. Shortly before Mrs. Brown was treated last fall, a medical publication quoted Steptoe as saying that of 60 attempted implants, only three showed signs of lasting ? one for nine weeks, the others for two. Why the difficulty...
Harold Rome's music has an infectious amiability and moves the show along on dancing feet, though the level of choreography is primitive. Rome's lyrics achieve something that is perhaps rarer than wit, a good humor that arises from compassionate fellow feeling...
...Bartlett Giamatti, the new president of Yale University: "In 15 years, Yale will be more expensive, there will be 1 million fewer 18-year-olds, the capacity to place Ph.D.s will be rarer, the young faculty is increasingly in despair. But we cannot retreat into a siege mentality...
...hundreds of the 17,000 glass panes had been replaced with plywood. Kids had shattered the crystal casements with bricks and BB guns and carved their initials into the trunks of the cacti. When the steam mains broke down along with the ventilation and heating systems, most of the rarer and more temperamental plants died. By 1971 the garden's board of managers was considering it for demolition...