Word: willard
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...culture," says Dr. John Fletcher, assistant director of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, "but the trend seems to be that whoever gets the most publicity gets to live." After the Fiskes' example, there may be "an avalanche of similar cases," predicts Willard Gaylin, president of the Institute of Society, Ethics and Life Sciences at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. But what happens when the press tires of the same old transplant story? Do latecomers lose...
...that they are now in better shape than they were in the aftermath of the 1973-75 recession. That downturn cost the banks $10 billion in losses on loans to speculative real estate ventures that went bust. This time around, the banks were more cautious about land deals. Says Willard Butcher, chairman of Chase Manhattan: "We mightn't be the brightest guys in town, but we aren't dumb enough to do it twice...
...known that the enemy does indeed know that I am coming Lieutenant General Willard W. Scott Jr. has readied his men and they are eager to make my acquaintance. But I am not worried, for they are vulnerable, having already been routed in Missouri, Chapel Hill and Vietnam I know they can be beaten again...
Professional educators' groups and public school associations strongly oppose Administration policies, pointing out that federal help has almost always been aimed at groups not served by local school districts. Says Willard McGuire, president of the National Education Association: "Block grants have been used to shift the battleground to the local level." Argues National School Boards Association President Thomas Shannon: "We don't know yet if the New Federalism ... is Orwellian Newspeak for the old federalism that existed in 1917 before the enactment of the Vocational Education Act and the Child Nutrition Act." James Gordon Ward of the American...
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson