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Distraught parents and relatives have to resort to publicity because of an acute shortage of organs for transplants. Less than 1% of all Americans die under circumstances and at ages that leave their organs viable for transplant, and not all of these organs become available. Transplant surgeons bitterly complain that doctors have little interest in "harvesting" organs from their brain-dead patients. Last year thousands of Americans died while waiting for kidney transplants. At Stanford University Medical Center, about one out of three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York...
Americans no longer resort to direct racist attacks, but they'll find 10,000 ways to tell you why you can't finish a program here," said Mitchell, a member of the Black Congressional Caucus...
...result of two devaluations of the peso so far this year, Mexico has become a bargain basement of U.S. tourism. An airplane ticket from Mexico City to Acapulco costs $44 this year, compared with $76 in 1981, and a room at the Hyatt Continental at the Pacific resort can be had for $42 a night, compared with $96 last year. At the famous Las Hadas resort, where the movie "10"was filmed, a couple can spend a week lolling on the beach or practicing their skiing for less than $500. The same outing a year ago would have cost Dudley...
...Federal Reserve Bank in Boston also reflected this tendency to shy away from proposals. Dukakis stuck mainly to a guarded defense of his previous for years in office. When Sears was asked what taxes he would increase if he had to, he responded that, as a last resort, he would use the sales tax. Dukakis--who last time around broke his infamous "leadpipe guarantee" of no new taxes by increasing the bill by $500 million--only insisted that no new taxes would be necessary. Instead he reterated the main specific proposal he has last January--that 40 percent...
Always a last resort, strikes have become an increasingly unattractive option for teachers. There were a record 242 strikes in the 1979-80 school year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and few seem likely to continue for long. A 19-day strike ended in Teaneck, N.J., last week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups...