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...They haggle worse than Afghans," complains a grocer, pointing to some Soviet technicians shopping in Kabul's bazaars. The grocer hides his best produce when he sees the Russians coming. A jeweler has a simpler defense: he just doubles his prices to the Russians. While the 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet civilian and military advisers in Afghanistan attest to Moscow's interest in the country, Kabul is not Prague or Budapest, where tanks can be rolled in quickly to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine. Afghanistan does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red Flag over a Mountain Cauldron | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...abdomen. Others are not fastidious enough; the dialysate bags must be handled with extreme care to avoid dangerous abdominal infections. Still, peritoneal dialysis has important advantages. CAPD's developers, Chemical Engineer Robert Popovich and Nephrologist Jack Moncrief, both of Austin, Texas, point out that it is simpler and, except for infections, less risky than using a kidney machine at home. A patient, for instance, can safely sleep through the procedure without the risk of bleeding to death if a tube is disconnected. Also, CAPD puts less strain on the heart, since no blood ever leaves the body, and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Body May Be Best | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Because the PAT plans are costly and complex to run, especially for smaller banks, the future may well lie with the simpler system of negotiable order of withdrawals, or NOWS. Here a customer need only open a single savings account and when he wants to pay a bill, write a withdrawal order: a draft that looks like a check and can be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PATs vs. NOWs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...SIMPLER FARES. The present profusion, and confusion, of fares-some airlines offer as many as 90-will be sharply reduced. Says Eastern Air Lines Marketing Vice President Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Help for Full Fares | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Actually, his self-definition turns out to be much simpler than that. Above all, he insists, "I'm an actor." The kind of actor, he omits to add, whose professional life is paralleled only by a handful of great British stars with full freedom to go where the roles are and no concern about the size of the part. "It's easier to move back and forth between the theater and films in England," Fonda feels, "where everything is in one place. Here film and theater are separated by the width of the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Permanent Star | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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