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...view of such glowing hopes for doing good and making big dollars, it is not surprising that DNA companies, most of them privately held, are proliferating from coast to coast, particularly in California and the Boston-New York-Washington corridor. Even Watson's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y., is planning a research company. Wall Street analysts disagree about which fledgling firms will become the Polaroid, Xerox or Texas Instruments of gene splicing, or indeed survive the infant industry's inevitable shake-outs and growing pains. But a handful seem to be well ahead of the pack...
Finally, the OMB director struggles into his jacket and overcoat and starts down the corridor. "We've got just two more weeks," he says over his shoulder. The deadline he is referring to is Feb. 18, when Ronald Reagan plans to announce the details of his fiscal program, including radical surgery on the federal budget...
That was understandable. The Americans had been divided by their captors into at least two groups for transportation to the airport in buses with blackened windows. The Americans then were run through a gauntlet of chanting militants. While some hostages thought the dozens of militants forming a corridor to shout "Death to America!" at them were just performing for propaganda effect, others were genuinely frightened and reported that they had been kicked and shoved during their last steps on Iranian soil...
...Wiesbaden a banner proclaimed WELCOME TO THE FREEDOM HOTEL. The returnees occupied either two-or four-bed hospital rooms along a blue-carpeted corridor with yellow ribbons festooned over each door. The Americans could watch three German TV channels, but preferred the English-language armed forces station. In a third-floor library they could catch up on U.S. newspapers and magazines and even watch video tapes recapping world events they had missed, ranging from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the death of Mae West...
...Israel. Another was Shafik Assad, a Druze member from Galilee. The independents were courted with a wide range of inducements: for Assad, a new community center for his native village; for others, promises of deputy ministershlps. Even among Begin's own aides, the reaction to the brazen corridor bargaining verged on outrage. "It's never happened before that people are so open about being for sale politically," said one aide. Added another: "It's a joke. What have they gained, another week...