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When Zovirax becomes available in mid-February, there will be another restraint: price. A five-day regimen of the capsules will cost from $15 to $18; the tag for six months of use will be a hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
...York Civil Liberties Union promptly denounced the mayor's decree as an unconstitutional restraint on personal freedom. Scoffed Koch: "Does this make any sense? Do people have a right to simply go out, if they are not in full possession of their faculties, and kill themselves?" In fact, few of the homeless chose to be out in the cold. On the first night of the sweep, the police picked up only 14 street people, two of whom went against their will. One, a woman of 66, protested that she was "waiting for a ship to take me back to Panama...
...patriotic fervor of Ronald Reagan. One of the reasons that the President agreed to switch the portfolios of Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker was to get maximum horsepower behind his drive for tax reform and the related issues of economic growth and Government spending restraint...
...husband was her greatest achievement. She wanted a life of art and literature, and on the few times she dragged her young husband into that world he either walked out, sulked or drank too much. He caressed other women in front of her. She shamed him with restraint. He made outrageous requests, like the instant removal of a whole reception from the banks of the Pedernales River to the shores of Lake L.B.J. She briefly argued against this arrogant display, then airlifted guests, barbecue and bars 25 miles in time...
During the 2 1/2-hour meeting, the President made no such demands and did not raise the question of whether Japan would renew the "voluntary" restraint agreement on auto exports due to expire in March. But he stressed that Japan should open its markets in areas where the U.S. is particularly competitive, notably telecommunications, electronics, forest products and medical supplies. Nakasone replied that he was "keenly aware" of U.S. "frustration" and promised personally to "step in and deal with specific problems." He displayed a reassuring grasp of details: when American officials cited the dialysis machine as an example of products being...