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When they reach the age of 75, even the most resilient of men and women are tempted to settle back and reflect on the past with a mixture of pride and wistfulness. Ronald Reagan does not have that luxury or, in fact, that temperament. As he rings in the sixth year of his presidency at the Palm Springs estate of Publisher Walter Annenberg this week and looks forward to his 75th birthday a month later, he faces a year that may be critical for his principal goals: scaling back the role of Government and improving the prospects for peace...
...Says C.O. Miller, president of System Safety, a Virginia consulting firm that has frequently been critical of airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation in our country is very good, and in some ways excellent. But safety weaknesses in civil aviation do exist. They reflect the fallibility of individual men and women." To be sure, what is already an extraordinarily safe system can, and should, be made even safer. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Jerry Hannifin/Washington
...cities not at all. No tight ends are in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame, but one ought to be. "Sounds crazy, considering what happened," he says. "But I don't guess I ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never had time to reflect, and looking back after retirement, everything seemed so jammed together." When the Cowboys called, looking for an emergency replacement, Smith was 38. "I promise you, I was like some old boy in his living room thinking, 'Man, I'd like to be down there with the Dallas Cowboys.' Suddenly...
...hospitals across the U.S., similar tales of callous and even life-threatening treatment apparently stemming from changes in the Medicare system seem to be cropping up with disturbing frequency. To concerned doctors and health-care groups, they reflect a growing gap in the American health-care system. Carroll Estes, director of the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, calls it the "no-care zone...
...layoffs so far have been in lower-echelon production jobs. Says Washington Bureau Chief George Watson: "We have not cut into the teeth of the news-gathering and producing-operation." Yet staff morale has plummeted, and some insiders claim that personnel are being spread too thin. "It will reflect in the quality of the show," predicts a staffer at ABC's newsmagazine 20/20, which lost four positions in the cutbacks. "We are already burnt out." Says a New York City-based producer: "I don't know if the new management understands the need for bench strength...