Word: conductivity
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...becoming more relaxed. The latest sign of change came at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago last week. By an overwhelming margin, the A.M.A.'s 279-member legislative body, the house of delegates, approved sweeping revisions in the code of ethics that tells doctors how to conduct their practices...
...accorded Kael's writing in years-a different conclusion emerged. After a promising period "in the late Fifties and early Sixties," says Adler, Kael's style has contained "nothing certainly of intelligence or sensibility," but has been overloaded with "quirks, mannerisms" and images of "sexual conduct, deviance, impotence, masturbation, also of indigestion, elimination, excrement...
...however, Kissinger continues to believe that the U.S. should be willing to negotiate with the Soviets. He indicated that he had been assured that a Reagan Administration would be "prepared to negotiate to push back the specter of nuclear war, to reduce arms and to establish rules of international conduct on the basis of strict reciprocity and principle." Kissinger also warned that the U.S. must not abandon the Third World. Said he: "We have many true friends in the developing world ... They wait for our leadership; they require our protection...
...constant vigilance, spraying and pruning. New York City has 33,000 American elms, one of the largest municipal collections in the East. Fewer than 1% died last year, largely because the elms are doused each spring with a chemical that discourages beetles from nesting, and park rangers and volunteers conduct "elm watches" to spot the disease (early signs: wilting, curling and yellowing leaves; thinning of the tree's crown; brown streaks under the bark). An aroused citizenry helps keep the pressure on city hall; last month elm lovers in the Big Apple staged a protest saying not enough...
...other orchestral sources around the country are moved, it is mostly to outrage. "Schuller is a fantastic composer and musician," says Irving Bush, trumpeter with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "but he is an absolutely atrocious conductor. When someone can't conduct at all, of course the musicians are going to be bored." Frank Miller, principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony, defends unionization by recalling the way things were before the union had clout: "Every year, 30 or 40 people were fired for such things as inattentiveness to a particular note." Some musicians concede, however, that the modern union contract...