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...unaware of some recent diagnostic advances. Said she: "That's what comes of self-reliance. It's a pity. They are excellent specialists and could have been of much more help." Replied Gale, whose group assisted in 13 of the 19 bone-marrow transplants that were administered to the sickest victims: "We have worked together very successfully." However, eleven patients who underwent the risky marrow transplants have reportedly died...
Agriculture has been among the sickest sectors of the economy. Plagued by low grain prices and continuing high interest rates, farmers are sinking deeper and deeper into debt. Last week the Farm Credit Administration asked Congress and the White House to begin making plans for a federal rescue of the 37 farmer-owned banks and 797 local lending associations that the FCA oversees. The institutions are stuck with loans worth more than $11 billion that have been classed as nonperforming because borrowers are behind on their payments. Donald Wilkinson, governor of the FCA, said that the federal aid needed could...
Steel was the sickest of the smokestack industries. Despite the recovery, steel companies lost $1.668 billion in the first nine months of the year. With 250,000 members on layoff, the United Steelworkers has felt as if it were pinned under an I beam. In March the union took a 9% pay cut, but that did not satisfy management. U.S. Steel threatened this month to shut down five plants, either partially or completely, unless employees accept further contract concessions...
...Masayoshi Ohira. Though autos were not on the agenda of the President's 21-hour stay in Tokyo, his Japanese hosts could hardly overlook the well-publicized stopover in the heart of the U.S. auto industry. The message: Jimmy Carter was attempting to rescue the U.S.'s sickest industry, and he wanted Japanese help...
...upbeat aspects of a downbeat economy is that real exports will improve." The return to stable economic growth in the U.S. is likely to be slow and arduous. Any quick moves to provide eco-nomic shock treatment would probably only result in another round of inflation. The two sickest sectors of business, housing and autos, do not appear to be near immediate recovery. Guest Panelist Marina Whitman, chief economist for General Motors, forecast a modest pickup in car sales during the summer and then stronger sales after the introduction of new models in the fall. Much of the increase...