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...public is through blood transfusions. The specter of contaminated U.S. blood banks was first raised early last year when AIDS began to be diagnosed in hemophiliacs. The nation's 20,000 hemophiliacs are uniquely vulnerable to blood-borne diseases because they depend on vast quantities of a blood byproduct to control their bleeding. A year's supply of the substance, known as anti-hemophiliac factor concentrate (AHF), comes from the blood of 25,000 to 75,000 donors. In the past year the CDC has also received alarming reports of about eight cases of suspected AIDS in nonhemophiliac...
Milton Friedman, Nobel-prizewinning economist: "Obviously, it's a good thing for Chrysler and the country that the company seems to be surviving, but one bad byproduct is that it will lead people to believe bailouts are a good thing. A free-enterprise system is one of profit and loss. If you guarantee against losses by bailing out losing companies, you remove the major monitoring device of a free market...
...Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess. Smiley and Karla had the time to outwait and outthink each other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental, a messy byproduct of otherwise elegant planning. The Middle East, as it is and as Le Carré portrays it, offers no such leisure. The distance between theory and the front lines is a missed step, an incautious gesture. Watches tick, recording each second as a preamble to destruction...
Over the next 75 years, according to commission estimates, Social Security faces a deficit of $1.6 trillion, a byproduct of the "baby boom" generation's reaching its retirement years. One long-term recommendation included in the compromise package would slowly increase the bonus for delaying retirement over a 20-year period, starting...
...left Times Beach after the flooding to stay away. He told those who had returned to avoid exposure to soil and debris until new tests were completed. Falk said that scientific studies with animals show that dioxin, an acutely toxic substance that is produced as an unwanted byproduct in the manufacture of herbicides and other chemicals, can have extremely adverse effects on the skin, liver and immune system. Many of the residents attending the session told Falk about persistent rashes and other medical ailments that may be related to dioxin pollution. Said Falk: "It would be difficult to overstate...