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...Mondale had selected any one of several other vice-presidential candidates, whether a woman or man, TIME would have been prepared to make a thorough presentation of that choice to its readers. (The other figure on TIME's June cover was San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, whom Mondale considered up to the last moment.) Still, we are pleased not only to have given the idea of a woman vice-presidential candidate national and international attention but to have helped zero in on Walter Mondale's eventual choice...
...combining the skills of doctors in many disciplines to deal with pain was pioneered by Bonica at the University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service in Seattle (see box). Treatment at a pain clinic begins with a thorough workup, including physical, psychological, neurologic, orthopedic, radiologic and laboratory examinations. If a physical problem is detected-a tumor pressing on a nerve, a slipped disc-surgery or some other appropriate treatment will be recommended...
...competitors, of the bombing attacks that killed almost 300 U.S. and French troops in Beirut last October. Yet Reuters does not hurry stories onto the wire before they are confirmed. New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney praises Reuters for reliability and restraint: "It is low key, cautious, thorough and not sensational." Says Jerusalem Post Editor Ari Rath: "With Reuters, you rarely have to ask, 'Do you have it from another source as well...
...council's procedures, which made them wait until the end of the meeting to discuss their proposal, failed to make it on the docketed agenda. Despite the criticism, council members say these procedures are a prerequisite for credibility with administrators. "The procedures are designed to insure that we are thorough", says council Secretary Richard A. Bennett...
Rivers partially attributes the success of the Harvard curriculum overhaul to a thorough training program for all doctoral candidate teaching fellows, in which they take a full-credit class on the methodology of language teaching and practice their own techniques in a classroom situation...