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...open next month at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Called the Wound Laboratory, the $70,000, 50-ft.-long firing range would have received 75 pigs for its initial experiments and, thereafter, up to 80 dogs a year. The plan: to anesthetize or restrain the animals, shoot them in the hind legs, and then let 150 military doctors treat the wounds. Once treated, the animals would have been killed. But news of the lab's plans triggered a weeklong public relations nightmare for the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and effectively shut...
...that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that he saw nothing. Mazzei warns that sex on business trips is particularly hazardous. "Some nighttime behavior at conventions can take on the look of a cheap bedroom farce." But if someone cannot restrain himself or herself, Mazzei advises bringing along a companion. Or, barring that, perhaps a good book...
...drive up rents and increase their profits. Great for them, but what about the meat packer that has to pay that rent every month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month, I know there are 21,000 Cambridge households that have a better chance of making ends meet because...
When currencies were set free to float in 1973, many economists predicted that exchange rates would move slowly and smoothly. Under Bretton Woods, currency values had only changed abruptly after crises sparked wild speculation. In addition, experts argued that with floating rates governments would no longer be forced to restrain their domestic economies just to bolster their currencies...
...trade war, governments of the industrial countries recently negotiated numerous "voluntary" agreements to limit commerce. The European Community, for example, promised the U.S. to hold steel exports to an average of only 5.4% of the American market. Europe won assurances from the Japanese that they would restrain exports of autos, light trucks, quartz watches, hi-fi equipment, computer-controlled machine tools and television tubes. Japan also agreed to put a 1.68 million ceiling on its auto shipments to the U.S. for the third straight year. The Geneva-based trade organization GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) estimates that roughly...