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...mysterious arrival. At Luqa, a Libyan air force cargo plane discharged 44 men in civilian clothes who were lugging 4-ft.-long wooden crates. Government spokesmen insisted that the Libyans were "technicians" who had come to operate Luqa when British air-traffic controllers leave; their crates merely contained technical gear...
Extending medical care to dependents would necessitate establishing a pediatrics and an obstetrics-gynecology service. "There's no way to get pediatrics and OBGYN in here without making some changes," Wacker said. "We're looking at the space for possible alterations to gear up for increased utilization...
Stein has excellent credentials as a thinker who can not only adapt to but also lead changes in economic thinking. In the late 1940s, he helped develop the concept of the "full employment budget" -the idea that the Government should gear expenditures not to estimates of what tax revenues actually will be but to what they would be if the economy were operating at full employment. Nixon finally enunciated that idea as official Government policy last January...
...fall by rushing to buy silver as a hedge against monetary instability. The fact that they did not reflects the degree to which silver had been demonetized; it had become simply another commodity, whose future value depends entirely on industrial demand for it in making film, electronic gear, silverware and jewelry...
...unctuous psychiatrist. And Robert De Niro appears as a speed-freak gypsy cab driver who doesn't want to take Marcus to Oyster Bay. "Come up, see my sister instead," De Niro leers. Marcus declines, and as De Niro hurls his purple Day-Glo cab into gear, he screams, "The gypsies lose again...