Word: reasonable
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...only for the dissension it has caused, it may have been a mistake to implement the May cut-off. But it bears repeating that the union makes its own rules. There is no reason for the staff position to find, in what appears to be little more than a scheduling error, evidence for unfounded fears that all power corrupts...
Even though HDL's relationship to coronary heart disease was first noted in 1951, many people are still not being advised by their doctors to raise their good-cholesterol levels. The reason, says Dr. Robert Levy, president of New Jersey's Sandoz Research Institute, is that there is no absolute proof that raising HDL alone can lower a person's risk of heart disease. No convincing body of evidence from animal studies has yet demonstrated the value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed...
Another key reason for the rising interest rates is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to total $137 billion in fiscal 1990. Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and now a Wall Street financier, warned a congressional commission last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against...
...legal maneuvering intensified over when and whether Oliver North will go on trial for his role in the Iran-contra fiasco, nonlawyers had reason to wonder about the motives of some of the players. On the one hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many...
...reason the Kremlin boss keeps boarding his customized Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 and winging off to foreign parts is that he has serious, apparently growing troubles at home. In recent weeks there have been bloody riots in the Caucasus and protests along the Baltic. At a special session of the Supreme Soviet, a few deputies to the traditionally rubber-stamp parliament took glasnost and democratization seriously enough to vote against some of Gorbachev's reforms. These difficulties give Gorbachev two reasons to keep hitting the diplomatic high road: he must reduce international tensions if he / is to devote more resources...