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Henderson added there has been a marked change in recent years towards less disfiguring surgery. He said National Institute of Health figures indicate the number of women having radical mastectomies was halved between 1970 and 1976 while the number having modified radical surgery (which does not involve removal of the chest muscle or total dissection of the lymph nodes) more than tripled...
DeNiro, whose most recent performance headlines the award-winning new release, "The Deer Hunter," is cited by the club as the "performer who has made the most outstanding contribution to the entertainment profession during the past year...
...Carter's most recent press conference, one reporter asked the president to react to the fourth-quarter profits of the oil companies which reached 48 per cent, 72 per cent, 44 per cent and 134 per cent in light of the president's request that workers in the oil industry hold their wage demands to seven per cent. Carter answered that, like all good Americans, he would "like to see a good balance between prices and profits...
While Carter advocates stricter enforcement of anti-trust laws, even if they were rigorously applied, the American economy would still be dominated by oligopolies. And as the chairman of Carter's own Council of Economic Advisers, Charles Schultze, noted in his 1959 study Recent Inflation in the United States, when the structure of the market is such that prices rise in response to greater demand, but do not fall when demand declines, the result will be an increase in average costs, hence a rising inflation rate. As consolidation of the market has quickened in the last several years (there were...
With the exception of rare events like the recent trip to Cuba, Dominguez works out of his office at the Center for International Affairs. It is filled with a wall-and-a-half of books and journals on Latin American politics--but the wall above his desk is reserved for a poster of Lucy, the character from the comic strip "Peanuts," shouting, "Vote for the blockhead of your choice...