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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because no instruments or heavy drugs are used, only women who appear headed for normal births are admitted. But if there is trouble-for example, one woman's labor was unexpectedly difficult and required delivery by forceps and repair surgery-the patient can quickly be taken to the regular obstetrical unit only a few doors away. Not the least of the center's benefits is economy. Because the routine has been vastly simplified and the entire stay is usually only 24 hours, the total charge, including two instructional visits at home after delivery by nurse clinicians (but excluding...
Mike Blumenthal was finishing his regular weekly breakfast in the Federal Reserve Board dining room with Chairman G. William Miller when the phone call came: the President urgently wanted to see him at the White House Only four hours remained until Jimmy Carter was to deliver his televised speech on inflation, and as Blumenthal was driven across town, he wondered if the President had any additional changes in mind. For months Blumenthal, the Administration's bridge to the business community and chief inflation fighter had advocated a tougher program to hold down prices and wages. So he had been...
Carter is expected to stress his pay-freeze suggestion when, in a week or so, he begins meeting on a fairly regular basis with business leaders at the White House. One result of any restraints on the top executives' income is that raises for lower-level managers would be pinched to preserve the traditional pay gap between echelons. Further, there is some question about the effectiveness of a freeze. A worker making $10,000 or $15,000 will not be overcome with a need for sacrifice upon hearing that an executive earning $400,000 is forgoing a raise...
McLean, 64, who ranks with his friend Daniel K. Ludwig in both his reclusiveness and the boldness of his investments, was noncommunicative as usual about the purchase. "We're just buying a regular-going steamship company," he said, adding with the understatement of a shrewd Scottish laird, "I think it's a good deal for both sides...
...Something happens when Harvard plays Yale--and it seems to happen to them," coach Bob Scalise said last night. "We were forcing play and not working our regular offense--it was kind of emotional, uncontrolled one-on-one charges," he added...