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...their eagerness to enter a glamorous industry, some firms began developing new products without thinking about what customers would buy them. Says Cetus Corp. Vice President William Amon: "There are far more technical opportunities than there are sensible market opportunities." Other new ventures ran into quality control problems when they mass produced drugs that were being made only in a laboratory test tube. Notes Genentech President Robert Swanson: "A number of companies have severely underestimated the enormous effort and specialized skills required to take a technical breakthrough and put it in a bottle ready for market...
...through with Harvard, I would not give them another red cent," said Ruth Carter Johnson, a Visiting Committee member and chairman of the board of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas...
...candidates are equally matched in budgets ($500,000 apiece), and each cites polls to show that he can win. But local political experts are betting on Wright, if for no other reason than his reputation as the most powerful Texan in Congress. Says Fort Worth Star-Telegram Publisher Amon G. Carter Jr.: "I don't agree with the way Jim Wright votes half the time, but I know how important he is in Washington, and he's the only thing we've got up there...
...exclusive concession to excavate the area in 1975, is the first institution to launch a systematic study of the temple grounds. The 25-acre site is surrounded by an ancient mud brick wall nearly four meters (twelve feet) high in places, and is connected to the larger temple of Amon by a sphinx-lined avenue believed to have been constructed by King Tutankhamen...
...Brooklyn archaeologists, this suggests that Sekhmet, who was consort to Ptah, the major god of Egypt during an earlier period, became associated and later identified with Mut, mate of the new king of the gods, Amon. The identification got a boost during the reign of Tutankhamen, who revived the once-suppressed Theban religious cult. Manning speculates that Tut's linking of the temples of Mut and Amon may have been a move to bring harmony and prosperity to a weakened and disordered land. Says Manning: "He had to restore order to Egypt if he was going to rule effectively...