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...legs, where clots seem to form more easily. People who sit or stand for long periods are particularly susceptible, as are patients recovering from childbirth or surgery-one reason doctors get them out of bed as soon as possible. Once one is afflicted, however, bed rest (with the limb elevated) is usually the best therapy...
...wraps. "It's like The Exorcist, " says Director Steven Spielberg. "If everybody knew that that kid was really vomiting pea soup, they wouldn't have been shocked." Anyway, much of the movie's shark footage will use real fish. Bruce is for close-up action of limb tearing, boat bashing and man eating that will inspire "40 minutes of uninterrupted terror and excitement...
...overemphasizing techniques and exact answers, the academician reveals an unwillingness to go out on a limb. Quantitative problems are usually small problems because data do not exist for the larger ones, unless estimated with gross approximation. For instance, you can solve the logistical problems of a war with systems analysis, but you cannot decide thereby if the war ought to be fought (Vietnam illustrates both points). Even apart from quantification, Harvard is still marked by an alarming degree of personal aloofness from society's problems, which is another form of refusing to go out on a limb. Of course this...
Scott is getting nervous because he went out on a limb to assail Dean's credibility on the basis of tape transcripts and summaries shown to him by Nixon. The failure of the White House to make the same information public disturbs Scott. His associates worry that he may have been misled by the one-week discrepancy in Dean's testimony about hush money, perhaps having seen a transcript in which no such discussion appeared. As for giving the Rodino committee what it wants, Scott, too, is opposed to "fishing expeditions," but he does not believe that the committee...
...hesitate to make predictions about the ECACs not only because this has been an extremely hard season to predict, but also because I'm a lousy predicter. However, I'll go out on a limb for the opening round...