Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test of the Administration's consistency will be what comes meetings being held now to prepare the budget for fiscal 1980. Carter has pledged to reduce the $39 billion deficit further, to no more than $30 billion. That will take some fancy cutting. Even if no new programs are started at all, the automatic growth in existing activities would result in a deficit of $46 billion to $48 billion. And the Administration has promised NATO allies that defense spending will rise 3% a year in real terms. So the cutting will have to come out of the budgets of civilian...
...hyperthyroid sportswriters, so the theory goes, would have stirred up another feud between Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson, or some other duo of dueling Yanks, that might have cost the team its title. The Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Islanders and Rangers will not get the chance to test that hypothesis. If all goes as expected, the city's strike-silenced dailies will all be back in print this week for the first time in three months...
Chicago group withdraws his award for test-tube baby
Gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and Physiologist Robert Edwards have basked in acclaim and glory since the July birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby. But last week a shadow was cast over the Britons' triumph. Chicago's Barren Foundation, set up to promote fertility research, abruptly canceled plans to honor Steptoe on Nov. 15 with its annual award. Reason: Steptoe and Edwards have not yet published a detailed report of their work in a medical journal. The decision caused confusion among doctors and the public, and prompted at least one newspaper, the New York...
...Washington and the board's vice chairman, was more accusatory: "There is great concern that Dr. Steptoe has failed to publish and explain fully what he did. To many of us with great experience in the field, it still has not been proved that there was a test-tube baby. For all we know so far, the baby could have been conceived by natural means." According to an interview with Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, Blandau further charged that Steptoe had "violated med ical ethics by selling his story to the National Enquirer, supposedly for $650,000, instead...