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...years ago and, like nearly 10% of people over 65, he had diabetes. The combination of cardiovascular disease and diabetes made him a high-risk candidate for kidney trouble, and he was suffering from kidney problems when he assumed power in November 1982. By last February, his kidney function had become so poor that he started treatment on a dialysis machine...
...cases where people have an outstanding record that shows they've changed and there's no point in keeping them in prison any longer." Bialecki says Gideonse does note, however that he sometimes has reservations about pushing for inmates release if their institutionalization has left them ill-equipped to function independently in the outside world...
...France of the 1950s, the domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal...
Since taking office, the Administration has virtually eliminated HUD's function as a builder of low-cost housing, choosing instead to spend $5.8 billion on modernizing existing units. Reagan has proposed a private-sector substitute: a housing voucher program, whereby poor families could shop for housing in the private rental market with federally subsidized cash vouchers. The Administration argues that the program will save the Government money and give people more control over their choice of dwellings. Critics charge, however, that the supply of private, low-cost housing is too small, and the opportunities for landlord price gouging...
...Andropov's death is thus more significant than a flubbed diplomatic opportunity. It is a reminder that the United States shares the worst of the Soviet Union's faults. Bush serves to express our sympathy, and his own, for the Soviet man who most closely resembled his own repressive function. It will be a sobering scene in Moscow, for all of us, as one Big Brother steps forward to lament the other's passing...