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Most credit-counseling services offer extensive financial advice. Says G. Bennett Perry, associate director of Credit Counselors Corp., a Fort Lauderdale-based firm: "We go over the entire budget, from rent to haircuts." Debtors are advised to keep a written record of all their expenditures and to refrain, under any circumstances, from borrowing more money...
...Soviets have put international pressure on the Reagan administration to refrain from testing by announcing their own moratorium, which Gorbachev said Thursday would remain in effect until the United States explodes another nuclear device...
Even as local officers issued polite messages to news organizations requesting that "journalists please refrain from entering Alexandra township," police and army forces were throwing up an impenetrable cordon around Alexandra. Several journalists climbed to hills overlooking the township to monitor and film the violence. The ruse, however, only provoked the authorities, who quickly issued new regulations banning reporters and photographers not only from Alexandra but from all surrounding areas...
Wise wrote that it is "absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them...
...AIDS seems to indicate that it can be spread only by sexual contact and the exchange of body fluids. Yet it is absurd to assume that carriers of the AIDS virus--many of whom do not realize that they are carriers, and some of whom are prostitutes--will unanimously refrain from having sex. The only feasible option we have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem to have forgotten, though...