The Michigan Daily-Thursday, July 16, 1981-Page 9
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Slow growth
predicted for
rest of year
From APandUPI
WASHINGTON - Inflation will con-
tinue to decline faster than previously
forecast, but unemployment will
remain a problem and there will be "lit-
tle or no" real economic growth the rest
of this year, the administration predic-
ted yesterday.
In its midyear economic report to
Congress, the Office of Management
and Budget said interest rates are ex-
pected to decline this year and next but
will remain at higher levels than
previously thought.
THE ADMINISTRATION'S fresh
economic forecast puts next year's
budget total at $704.8 billion, with a
deficit of $42.5 billion.
But the deficit should give way to a
small surplus in 1984, the ad-
ministration projected in its mid-year
budget revision sent to Congress.
"This administration is determined
to .balance the budget by 1984," said
Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the
president's Council of Economic Ad-
visers.
MARTIN ANDERSON, the
president's domestic policy adviser,
said the latest report "demonstrates
this administration is firmly committed
to spending control . . . and it will con-
tinue to be a top priority."
The administration blamed high in-
terest rates, now at near-record levels,
for forcing it to boost fiscal 1982 spen-
ding projections above the 1695.3 billion
President Reagan had set in February
when he proposed $48.6 billion in budget
cuts. Fiscal 1982starts Oct. 1.
ON A YEARLY average basis, the
administration now projects consumer
price inflation at seven percent in 1982,
gradually dropping to 4.2 percent by
1986.
But as a result of the anti-inflation
policy, the administration expects in-
terest rates - while declining - will
remain higher than it forecast in Mar-
ch. It estimates an average three-
month Treasury bill rate of 13.6 percent
this year and 10.5 percent next year.
Previous estimates were 11.1 and 8.9
percent.
Hormone could help
prevent shortness
BOSTON - Doctors trying to prevent
shortness have found that doses of a
human hormone may add several in-
ches to the height of many children on-
ce destined to grow up to be under 5-
foot-3.
Until now, the natural chemical,
called human growth hormone, has
been used only to treat children with a
rare deficiency that prevents growth
entirely.
BUT NOW, researchers have found
that it may be useful in helping some
healthy but slow-growing kids attain'
normal stature.
The study, directed by Dr. Daniel
Rudman, was conducted at Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta and was
published in Thursday's issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine.
"Short children are pretty common,"
Rudman said. "Usually they are
defined as below the third percentile.
This means the shortest three children
in every 100. If you start looking at
short children, in the majority of them,
there is no apparent cause for their
shortness."
ABOUT 40 percent of all short
children appear to produce normal
amounts of growth hormone. However,
Rudman's research group found that
many of these short children apparen-
tly produce an abnormal form of
growth hormone that fails to do its in-
tended job in the body.
The hormone, however, is in short
supply, because it can be obtained only
from human pituitary glands collected
after death. Until now, it has been used
only to treat youngsters whose bodies
produce no growth hormone of their
own.
However, scientists have found ways
to use genetic engineering to program
bacteria to produce the hormone. Sub-
stances manufactured this way curren-
tly are being tested, but they have not
been approved yet for widespread use.
Daily Photo by KIM HILL
Different approaches to work
Dangling from a crane, workers on a scaffold polish the facade of the
Graduate Library yesterday while a co-worker prefers a more stable ap-
proach to clean the windows. The foreman, however, likes to keep both his
feet on the ground.
Asbestos may pose health
hazard -in hospital project
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followed by the demolition of the
Clinical Faculty Building and the Adult
Psychiatric Wing (NPI) of University
Hospital.
DOUGLAS SARBACH, director of
planning, research, and development
for University Hospital said that nor-
mal precautions will be taken and will
be written into the specifications in-
volving demolition of the North Out-
patient Building, also built with
asbestos materials.
SARBACH MAINTAINS that no
studies have been done as to the extent
of asbestos use in the heating and
cooling systems of the three buildings
to his knowledge. The North Outpatient
Building was built in the mid-1940s, and
the Clinical Faculty Building and NPI
were constructed during the 1930s.
ACCORDING TO another
engineering source at University
Hospital, most of the exposed asbestos-
insulated piping has been replaced,
although the more extensive and inac-
cessible internal piping probably
remains covered with asbestos.
The former health planning official
maintains that from his observations
almost all unexposed piping in the four
buildings is covered with asbestos in-
sulation,
The official maintains that proper
collection and disposal of the asbestos
materials will be a relatively expensive
project based on the age of the
buildings involved and the extent of
asbestos use.
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