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...considering requiring some of the checks Sauer incorporated into his study. One of them is the Master "two-step" test designed to measure how the heart reacts to the physical stress of repeatedly ascending and descending two steps in the testing room. Although such tests have become routine additions to many physical examinations, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 31,000 pilots, objects to the proposal. One of its arguments is that the two-step test could produce misleading results. In fact, ALPA has even made plans to strike the airlines if such testing is made part...
South of the border, it is turista or "the Aztec two-step." In Asia, visitors from the West call it "Delhi belly." By any name, traveler's diarrhea, a debilitating digestive upset caused by a change in the system's bacterial population, is a synonym for misery that can spoil a trip and jeopardize the victim's health. The standard prophylactic for many years has been Entero-Vioform, a drug so frequently used that it is the traveler's best friend. That fond relationship has come under challenge by the American Medical Association. The A.M.A. Journal...
Model Application. Chrysler asked for a 5.9% price hike to reflect the two-step wage increases of 7% that automakers will begin paying this week. The commission bounced the application and demanded more facts. Says Economist Robert F. Lanzilotti, a commission member: "We need to know more about their costs in terms of direct labor, materials, plant burdens, corporate burdens. I know that this information exists, and we want...
...After two days of consultation and debate in the restored 19th century Palacio da Ajuda overlooking the estuary of the Tagus River, the NATO ministers settled upon an answer. With the notable exception of France, which still refuses to cooperate in NATO's military activities, the 14 remaining ministers agreed to consider test-tasting the Kremlin vintage. The ministers, who first proposed the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) during their 1968 Reykjavik meeting, set up a two-step exploratory phase...
According to the proposal-which has also been ratified by the faculties of Business, Law, and Medicine-a two-step procedure would be set up to handle charges of faculty misconduct...