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...retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five years later, at the now relatively young...
...deluded by work-free fairy tales, but neither am I dissuaded because they are fairy tales. There is another side to that rainbow. Is it enough for us to prance around a single end with our petty games? Or can we move toward the unprofessional and the unknown? I guess we ll find out at the 25th...
...holds that in a perfectly competitive industry, no effort will need to be expended to sell the product. The supply will be equivalent to the demand, and the work of the market would simply be to match up buyers and sellers. Advertising, window dressing and product differentiation are all unknown to the wheat market, for instance, which is the closest thing to perfect competition in United States. Time Warner and other media conglomerates, however, see effort not simply as part of their business but as their whole business. We may conclude that they have a high degree of market...
...million (1993) Moseley v. General Motors Corp. (reversed and settled for unknown amount...
...people. What they need from you is a clear new picture. Like Bush in 1988, you're famous but unknown; people know your face and name but aren't sure what you believe in. This is not a disadvantage but an opportunity. Now you get to reintroduce yourself, and on your terms...