Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to treat everything from cancer to the common cold. Shares of Genentech are expected to go on sale soon on the over-the-counter market, and investors are queuing up to buy what some believe will be one of the strongest new issues of the '80s. A few brokers are already touting Genentech as the next Polaroid or Xerox. Says Financial Analyst Peter Smith of E.F. Hutton: "The expectations of the people doing research are mighty exciting. But for now we are selling sizzle-there is no steak around...
Calling a vote for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) a "terrible, mistake," Samuel W. Brown Jr. '68, director of the Peace Corps and Vista, yesterday told students that reelecting President Carter will keep social activism alive in the '80s...
...Senator James Buckley, 57, wants a much reduced federal presence in Americans' lives. Says moderate Republican Sid Gardner, who heads John Anderson's campaign in the state: "This is a clear and direct battle. It boils down to how the people of Connecticut perceive what the '80s are all about...
Last week, Logue assessed the most difficult obstacle his South Bronx plan must overcome. The vastness of government in the '80s has inevitably brought with it bureaucratic tensions and foul-ups. Logue is a man with a vision of what he can do in the Bronx, but today he lacks the power to streamline his plan through government's bureaucratic steeplechase. If he doesn't get this power, Boston may remain his only testament of what government can do. The South Bronx could instead become a national symbol of an unmoveable government crippled by its own vastness...
...into the ground was a ticking time bomb, primed to go off." Predicts Dr. Irving Selikoff, director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of New York City's Mount Sinai Medical School: "Toxic waste will be the major environmental and public health problem facing the U.S. in the '80s." The EPA estimates that the U.S. is generating more than 77 billion Ibs. of hazardous chemical wastes a year and that only 10% are being handled in a safe manner. At least half of the wastes, says Gary N. Dietrich, an EPA official, "are just being dumped indiscriminately...