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...fact that labor's love lost in spite of this intensive mobilization drive (estimated worth: $40 million) seems not to have sparked much soul searching among union leaders. They roundly reject the notion that labor forced an unelectable candidate on the Democratic Party or that they bear any responsibility for his defeat. If anything, they say, Mondale dug his own grave by not campaigning directly on labor issues. Many union officials maintain that the interest ignited by the early endorsement greatly strengthened their political apparatus. "The process produced its intended result," says AFL-CIO Spokesman Murray Seeger...
Although it did not permanently damage Digital's position, the temporary license suspension has prompted manufacturers to take a close look at their own responsibilities. While businesses might previously have looked the other way to turn a quick sale with unauthorized export firms, they now reject those offers out of hand. "We simply don't do business with those companies," says Ganaghan. We just comply with the law and maintain a very low profile says Michael Ferrante, a Corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate compliance...
...useless to blindly embrace neoliberalism or to flat-out reject it, for, in fact, neoliberalism as a clearly-defined political creed does not yet exist. What exists is a mindset--apparently an attractive one--that, like Gary Hart, continually whispers "new, new, new, not old, not old" in your ear. What has yet to be determined is the clear-cut political agenda that will accompany the invocation of spiritual rebirth and political renewal...
...technical innovation, was sharply divided. "There has never been a successful cross-species transplant," declared University of Minnesota Surgeon John Najarian, one of the country's leading pediatric-transplant specialists. "To try it now is merely to prolong the dying process. I think Baby Fae is going to reject her heart." Others defended the experiment. "It's very easy to sit back and be negative when a new treatment is announced," said Dr. John Collins, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If we all were afraid to attempt the untried, we would have...
Even if Fae does not reject her new heart, she might ultimately need a replacement. Though Dr. Bailey's animal research suggests that a xenograft adjusts to the needs of its new host, no one really knows what to expect. Also unknown is the long-term effect of cyclosporine, which Fae may have to take for the rest of her life. The drug has been found to cause liver and kidney damage and to increase the risk of certain cancers...