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...Rose's work load is a throwback to the days of black bags and horse-drawn buggies. In the 3½ years since he came to Feather Falls, he has been careening around its twisty roads in a flower-speckled '68 VW Bug pretty much day and night. Rose talks in an easy country twang that belies his Princeton (B.A. '69) and Baylor (M.D. '73) education. After serving his residency in an urban Oakland, Calif., hospital, he came to Feather Falls and found himself delivering goats, prescribing for sick dogs and sewing up deer attacked...
...There's a much heavier load on the system right now," Galvin said, "so it's much more likely to crash." At present, 22 of the 31 Science Center terminals and four of the seven Leverett House ones are used...
...good reason for concern. The small rural landowner was being squeezed dry. More and more parvenu nobles, exempt from taxes, were buying country property; the mounting costs of a burgeoning bureaucracy thus fell on fewer and fewer Frenchmen. Petitions for nobles and clergy to share in the tax load went unheard...
This income has helped Iran partly offset a de facto trade embargo imposed by U.S. longshoremen, who have refused to load cargoes on ships headed for Iran. U.S. exports to Iran in 1978 totaled about $3.7 billion a year and included 25% of Iran's food imports and most of the replacement parts for its weapons and capital machinery. Administration officials maintain that the freeze has furthermore deprived Iran of basic imports such as cooking oils, tires and even valves for Tehran's water supply system. Insisted one Administration spokesman: "The way we see it, the Iranians should...
...description, as the authors see it. Decisions turn on the shifting votes of "the group," as Stewart calls it, the court's centrist core-Stewart, Powell, White and John Paul Stevens. Harry Blackmun is described as having to struggle to keep up with the court's work load but, growing in self-confidence and independence, he increasingly joins the group. Justice William Rehnquist has the intelligence and the personal charm to be the leader but is too far to the right to consistently swing others. The two leftover liberals from the Earl Warren Court, Thurgood Marshall and William...