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Reagan's Sept. 24 call for an additional $13 billion 'i~ fiscal 1982 spendi~g cut~ and $8:

Industries Inc. reported that third quarter eandn~ g~ rose 9~3% to $203.5 million, or $t.87

Southwestern states. As one Illinois legislator asked:

Columbia- have synthesized chemical cousins of a compound called Lacinilene C Methyl Ether, o~ LCM.~:.

F~ more emphasis should have ~n phced on ~c limkadons of " ~tter to put the emphasis on quhtlng bemuse swltch~ng ~ such a the Framiagham Study data.

Thus, in a large series ofpatlents, an ordinarily rare tumour was more than 18 times as frequent in a population at risk of BN than in a non-exposed population. The difference may be even greater than ..reported here ifthe exact endemic population could be determined. " 35% of the patients had, at fellox~up> fl2M in their urine, but • positivit3; w~ not related to place of residence. In an age matched ..

For each employment group, observed numbers of deaths were compared to numbers expected based on relevant U.S. mortality rates specific for cause, age, calendar time, sex and race. (Cause-specific mortality ratesfor Ohio are virtual)y identical to those for'ithe United States~; the U.S. rates wer~ used because they. ar~ avai!-.

The goal of the H~:alth £v~laalion and Ri~k Tabulation (HEART),Program is to r~d'uc¢

HEART program activities. The other type of data, relating to the performance of these

While the economic man is the most revered standard of consumption for nineteenth-century economists and twentieth-century ]egallsts, this standard has long been recognized by consumer behaviorists as being hopelessly incarcerated by a web of assumptions that generally prevents the existence of even the most basic perceptions of reality.

A slmplc eight-item questionnaire wa~ used to assess the salumte~ fat content of the diet of participants in a medlifactorial trial of the prevcnlion of coronary hea~ disease. queqlh~nnaire- was found Io have go~ repeat;~bility, and a score d~ri,ved from h correlated Hgn~ficantly with a more lengthy dietary ~ecall me~hgd (the 3-day dial) in assessin~ the amount ofs~tlurated fal in 1h¢ diet: high scorns reflected a low salura¢¢d ~t intake.

The promotion 9f health, was a central tenet of Hippocratic medicine and of Paidea, the Greek educational ideal ~2). Today, in the midst of the golden ag~ of cura~iv~ med~icin~,.the time of this ~a~ien~ ideal seems t~ have come again. Ther¢ are mountin~ pl~a:s, rot extensive ~atio'~al pragrams or prevention and health promotion. They promise to compete for expenditures with curative medicine. A publlc~ debate over' the allocation of funds is in the 0~ng.

In ~he review, sev¢~l approaches were £ound using co~t analysis [n ~he sho~- and long-term

Baylar C, Ih'~'c of .lh'dh'htt'. ttou.vtott.

Auchter insists that his efforts to alter the akeney's di.rectio.n h'av6 been supported by several union leaderships, but

WASHIN~TON--HIH~S finds itself on the defensive amid lots of smoke.