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Though nobody could predict how long the aging and diabetic Schroeder would survive???his only predecessor, Dr. Barney Clark, died after a courageous 112-day struggle last year?he was reported at week's end to be doing "beautifully" (see following story). But even if Schroeder dies soon, there will be more such operations, and even more complicated ones, in the near future...
After Congress's approval in December 1979 of loan guarantees covering $1.5 billion of Chrysler's borrowings?money it would need to survive???lacocca's hard est task began. Congress made the guarantees contingent on Chrysler's winning about $2 billion of concessions on its own: from the United Auto Workers, suppliers, state and local governments and 446 lenders. Those negotiations took six months and were concluded just as the company was days away from declaring formal bankruptcy...
...quite different from one another, and the children in each place have their differences as well. Nor do those within a single war zone necessarily react in the same ways to the terrors around them. What all these children do have in common is a fierce will to survive???a will that sometimes takes the form of revenge, and at other times, of an abiding serenity. But no matter how they assert themselves, there is an essential good-heartedness in almost all these children, a generosity of nature that transcends and diminishes anything they have suffered...
Milton cost $2,700 a year. McLean customarily runs around $36,000. But besides structure and schooling, it provided James with an opportunity to think. He began to reflect upon what it takes to survive???beyond sensitivity and naked faith in human nature. Says he: "In a euphoric society existentialism would be fine. The way things are now, though, it certainly is necessary to have buffers like Christianity. To me Jesus is a metaphor, but also a manifestation of needs and feelings people have deep within themselves." After nine months of thinking things out at McLean, James also came...
...given a chance, however slim, of standing alone, and 2) the U.S. could shore up positions elsewhere in Asia, mostly through economic and diplomatic efforts. This would in fact mean that the U.S. would pull out by a certain time, regardless of the chances of the Saigon regime to survive???although the U.S. would not say so officially...
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