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...nearly a decade. The cardiologist agreed to a request from KAET-TV in Tempe, Ariz., to do a televised operation as part of a month-long health series on the public station. The two-hour segment, picked up by some 100 public TV stations in 33 states, had "a twofold purpose," said KAET Spokeswoman Kathy Banfield: "To alleviate the fears of those who face this surgery" and "to encourage others to give up smoking and other bad habits so they won't wind up on that table." To help "educate" viewers, Diethrich and two studio commentators gave a running...
...problems in 1977 were twofold. In the long run, available supplies of oil and natural gas would not be able to meet growing demand. We owed it to future generations to stop wasting so much energy and find other sources for fuel. The immediate problems were serious enough. Our excessive purchases on the world oil market were helping to force prices ever upward, and spasmodic shortages were damaging to the American economy. We were afflicted with both inflation and unemployment, and there was special suffering among the aged and poor...
Another former manager, Randall S. Yanker '83, points to the unusual twofold burden borne by the triad, who must both monitor a business and educate the managing operators. Calling it a "luxury" to work with already trained managers. Yanker notes that without that luxury, students must often simply accept what "upper management" wants...
...criticisms of Watt were twofold...
...light pieces touch on everything from weddings ("The quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom") to social philosophy ("Nostalgia is fueled by inflation"). Trillin finds that American satirists live in "constant danger of being blindsided by the truth." His twofold defense against that danger: to reduce large questions to the microscopic (President Reagan named as his Surgeon General a doctor once known as "the Tummy Tuck King of Palm Beach") and to enlarge the trivial to the grotesque ("Am I the only person who favors a law mandating life imprisonment...