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Administration officials last week were publicly and pointedly urging Volcker to rein in the money supply, even if that causes a modest uptick in interest rates. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who had reservations about Volcker's reappointment, called for "slow-repeat slow-and steady" money growth...
...Cooper Medical Center in Camden, N.J., last January hired a plane to carry a streamer over Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during a football game with the message: COOPER DOCTORS, YOUR OTHER WINNING TEAM. Some institutions give birthday parties for babies born in their hospitals in the hope of encouraging repeat visits. At Humana's Women's Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with games. Patients at Eastwood Hospital in Memphis, a Healthcare International facility, get a $10 refund...
...WAKE of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stunning victory two weeks ago, many of her supporters have predicted all sorts of peachy things to come for their proud country, promising everything short of a return to world domination and a repeat of the Falklands victory in the Ukraine...
...video cameras in major murder cases. In New Orleans, TV confessions are used when illiterate defendants are unable to sign transcribed statements. The Minneapolis police department records statements from child-abuse victims. Says Chief Anthony Bouza: "That way a child recounting a traumatic event doesn't have to repeat it 20 times...
Beyond the aesthetics of the thing, writing one's own ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...