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...results and far more willing to blame them on a physician's failure. "People do not understand that everything is not going to result in a perfect outcome every time," says the A.M.A.'s executive vice president Dr. James Sammons. "We've fallen into the trap of being incredulous when a perfect result doesn't occur...
...cannot understand why a woman would object to being a part of the " 'compassion trap'-the need to serve others and provide tenderness and compassion at all times." What this society needs is more emphasis on the need to serve others and provide tenderness, compassion, cooperation and love...
...Gargoyle Conspiracy by Marvin Albert (Doubleday; $7.95) assumes, perhaps wrongly, that the expunging of any American Secretary of State would be a staggering blow to Western civilization. The Palestinians who plan this misdeed lay their trap, rather self-indulgently, in the South of France. They are foiled, as they seem to be regularly in thrillers and less often in real life. The details are not especially interesting, but one bit of irony is worth mentioning. A terrorist, Selim, is found dead. Did he commit suicide to avoid capture? Certainly not, his English adversary concludes; no terror ist has ever been...
...lose their support money if they refuse; wives who sit quietly while their husbands blame recessionary business slumps directly on them." In one of the many new books on the subject, The Assertive Woman (Impact), Phelps and Co-Teacher Nancy Austin note that women are victims of the "compassion trap"-the need to serve others and provide tenderness and compassion at all times...
...fashion a new start in a major foreign policy address Thursday to a joint session of Congress. A strong, clear presidential reappraisal of the full range of American commitments and priorities abroad has become both urgently necessary and exceedingly difficult. Ford and Kissinger are caught in a foreseeable trap created by their own pronouncements on how crucial Southeast Asia is to America's foreign policy...