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...result has been an increasingly bloody conflict that now each month leaves as many as 1,000 dead or missing. An estimated 20,000 Salvadorans have died in the past two years alone. Although the left is responsible for many of the random killings, most appear to be the work of the death squads and security forces...
...more than a handful of winners are necessary to avert a full-scale depression in the book business. Some major corporations that backed publishing in the '60s and '70s, hoping for a big score, are pulling out. RCA sold Random House; CBS jettisoned Fawcett Books; textbook giant Scott, Foresman abandoned William Morrow. And the film studios, whose pictures often earned outsize profits for paperback tie-in editions, are equally cautious. A seven-figure property like Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife has yet to make it to the screen. Currently, the odds are against...
...engaged me in a joshing Socratic dialogue. His observations seemed random but formed a pattern spelling out a series of directives for his subordinates. Both Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson had died within the previous two months, he noted. With them the old China policy and the old Viet Nam policy had been buried. "At that time, you opposed us. We also opposed you. So we are two enemies," he laughed...
Lowering salt intake seems to reduce hypertension too. Beginning in 1972, Dr. John Farquhar of Stanford University conducted a three-year study of 1,500 men and women selected at random in three California towns. In two of the towns, subjects cut salt intake 30%. In the third, no dietary change was made. The result: blood pressure was 6.4% lower among the low-salt people than in the control town...
...regional college-bound averages. My assignment: to revise a group of publications sent to every high school senior since the beginning of time, or of the SAT. Be sure to identify the precise relationship between the two words before applying it to the second pair. It is unlikely that random guessing will change your score significantly, and it does take time. If the question is too difficult for you, go on to the rest of the section. Come back to the difficult questions later if you have time. And so on through August...