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...ballot featuring both a record number of presidential candidates and amendments to the state constitution, voting machine breakdowns, and a heavier-than-expected turnout in some wards contributed to the slowdown...
...growth in real gross national product, about 6% inflation, an average of 7.7% unemployment; all those figures are in line with predictions that private economists have been publicizing for months. More interesting, the report also predicts a slowing of this already modest recovery in 1977, and implies that the slowdown will be necessary to keep inflation from flaring up and cutting off the recovery in later years...
There is one cinematographic last gasp at Carpenter Center tonight at 7:30 as Ralph Steiner appears to show his Joy of Seeing, a collection of short films based on "a theory of education through inebriation." Let's hope he wasn't using hand-held cameras. The films include slowdown, hurray for light and glory-glory--an unusual set of titles...
That was the physician's way of telling the public that it had brought on itself the latest California doctors' slowdown by suing for excessive malpractice awards. Since the start of the new year, four-fifths of the 11,000 physicians in the Los Angeles area had refused to treat patients, except in the most serious emergencies. In some hospitals, wards were closed and the services of such specialists as orthopedists and neurosurgeons all but unavailable...
...week's end both sides remained adamant. It seemed probable that unless the doctors showed a willingness to accept some of the social-responsibility provisions demanded by Brown in a malpractice-insurance reform bill, the legislation had little chance of passage and the slowdown would...