Word: uncommonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Americans, Gerald R. Ford is a commoner of uncommon candor, an Everyman struggling manfully with the job of President. To Reporter Richard Reeves, Ford is "slow, unimaginative and not very articulate"-and none too candid either. In A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), a new and widely discussed account of Ford's first 100 days, Reeves calls Ford's rise to the presidency "a triumph of lowest-common-denominator politics, the survival of the man without enemies, the least objectionable alternative." He adds: "The President of the U.S. is just another...
...practice "judicious neglect," deciding, for example, against reviving a terminal cancer patient who has just gone into cardiac arrest or performing corrective surgery on a hopelessly retarded infant with a serious heart condition as well. Indeed, many doctors admit that the withholding of extraordinary medical care is a not uncommon practice at both ends of the life spectrum. Dr. Raymond Duff, for instance, revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1974 that of 299 infants who died over a 2½-year period at Yale-New Haven Hospital, 43 had been allowed to die, after consultation with their...
...Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an uncommon condition; in the entire U.S. there are no more than a thousand known victims. But those who have this metabolic abnormality must lead highly sheltered lives; sunlight causes their skin to swell or break out in blisters. Some victims develop gallstones. In the past, victims of EPP have had to avoid direct sunlight as much as possible, covering up or staying indoors entirely during the summer months. Now they have an alternative. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth of Harvard Medical School has found that betacarotene, a substance that...
...judged "competitors"? To most of their customers, banks and insurance companies may not seem to compete; not only are their main businesses different but they make different types of investments. Insurance companies, for example, sometimes buy buildings, like the Landmark office complex in Atlanta, owned by MONY, a practice uncommon to banks. The Government nonetheless argues, with some justice, that banks and insurers do compete. Both make mortgage loans, and both manage pension funds. In making loans to corporations, banks have traditionally concentrated on loans of five years or less, insurance companies on loans of 15 years or more. Recently...
JUDGING FROM the experiences of the 28 celebrities who were interviewed for The First Time, relief and disappointment are not uncommon reactions. "My God, is this it?" Nora Ephron thought to herself after losing her virginity in a Harvard dormitory. "Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" And Clifford Irving's first thought after his first time was, "That was lousy. I've got to fuck someone else." Perhaps it's just one of the facts of life that sexual initiation is a drag. Nevertheless, the subject continues to hold a certain fascination, whose power...