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Reports of these cases led the U.S. Public Health Service to take action earlier this month. In a move encouraged by the American Red Cross and the National Hemophilia Foundation, the PHS urged that "as a temporary measure," members of high-risk groups for AIDS "refrain from donating blood." Blood centers around the country are now informing donors of this recommendation and discreetly inquiring about their sexual and drug habits...
...first step must be to determine accurately the costs of weapons. Contractors and Pentagon program directors should not be allowed to "buy into" long-term procurements with pie-in-the-sky price projections. Contractors should bear direct financial responsibility for cost overruns. This would force the Pentagon to refrain from "gold-plating" and tinkering with designs once a weapon moves into production...
...exciting, as are the costumes and set. My One and Only possesses a stylish set as well. At times, it also reveals Tune's (or Sellars's, or Walsh's) flair. Tune and Twiggy dance on water, and a group of four elderly gentlemen occasionally appear singing an ironic refrain from an already performed song. The show must quicken and tighten its pace, though it should retain the gentle tone befitting Gershwin's consistently lovely music--the score includes "He Loves and She Loves," "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and "Kickin' the Clouds Away...
...addressed the audience in an engagingly familiar manner. "When the curtain went up, you clapped," he said. "What was it? Tell us so we'll be able to do it tomorrow night." Then in a tacit recognition of the show's greatest strength, he led the audience in a refrain from "'S Wonderful." Tune told the audience that the show is still being revised, and one senses that he meant it: when Billy tells Edythe, "Sometimes I still feel unborn." Tune seem to express his recognition that My One and Only is far from full grown...
...middle and upper classes and seek savings in defense and entitlement programs. If he does not, Senators like Kansas' Robert Dole will take over the job that their constituencies are telling them should be done. A thousand other small actions in state government and city councils echo this refrain...