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...shoppers. In Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan, free-spending shoppers are readily paying $545 for Burberry trench coats or $1,000 for life-size hand-carved replicas of China's eight immortal mandarins. At the Younkers department store in Omaha, one customer recently bought seven Yves Saint Laurent blouses as gifts for $400 each...
...serious chance of winning. He spent endless hours countering the main charge of Carter's campaign: he was a warmonger. He constantly reassured voters that he would not dismantle Social Security, end unemployment compensation. Quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt as though he were a kind of patron saint, bizarre as that seemed, Regan adopted the old Democratic pledge to create jobs and "put this country back to work...
...promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory retirement. The next day, Hawkins, campaigning in brilliant sunshine in Port Saint Joe, promised to seek a Senate investigation to determine whether, as she suspects, the U.S. has sufficient oil reserves for the next 300 years...
...such a complex exist in humans? Dausset, 63, of the Saint-Louis Hospital of the University of Paris, found that it did. Comparing the white blood cells (leukocytes) of patients undergoing transfusions with those from blood donors, Dausset identified distinct antigens on cell surfaces. Then he located the controlling genes. Because they were first found in white blood cells, the surface proteins are called human leukocyte antigens (HLA), though they exist in all tissues. Over 40 antigens have been identified...
...looking at organized crime that we've seen before, and Cassavetes still pulls it off, which is a neat little trick. Still, most of the finer things Cassavettes tries to achieve have already been done better, in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and Peter Bogdanovich's unacknowledged masterpiece, Saint Jack...