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...those who seek more extensive smile repair or who risk losing their teeth because of overcrowding or bite problems, orthodontics offers a range of alternatives. Clear plastic braces, available for the past ten years, have made orthodontics more palatable to adults, who now account for 20% of the braces business. "Invisible," or lingual, braces, which are applied to the backs of teeth, are even less conspicuous, though some users complain of tongue irritation and mild speech problems...
...problem was that Atis lumbered into the postdivestiture period with far more employees than it would ever need. Under terms of the breakup, tens of thousands of Bell workers in maintenance, repair and installation were attached to the new division after January 1984. Thousands more were later added to the payroll: 17,000 manufacturing employees and 10,000 warehouse workers...
...Park said, his wife would go to school to train in interior decorating and he would go to study English and broaden his knowledge in liberal arts. And, oh yes, he nearly forgot: after Korean cars are introduced on the West Coast this fall, he intends to open a repair and parts shop...
...departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs, she had resisted so fiercely that she required surgery to repair damage to her knees...
Bewildered Americans have waited by their telephones for a year and a half to hear of some concrete benefit from the breakup of the Bell System in January 1984. Up to now, many people thought the only results were nearly indecipherable phone bills, baffling repair procedures and higher charges for local service and directory assistance. Last week came still more confusion...