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When asked to speak of the values he holds dear to heart, Bok speaks of the importance of community service, a dedication to helping cure society's ills, and the necessity to address ethical issues...
...problem: two scientists in Britain had devised a complex process for manufacturing antibodies, which might ultimately lead to a cure for certain cancers, but nobody was actually making them...
...cell from a mouse is fused with a white blood cell that produces a specific antibody, then the hybrid cell can be cloned indefinitely and the antibodies separated from it. At the least, these monoclonal antibodies could be used for diagnosis of many ills; if proved safe, they might cure them. That all seemed a little remote to Greene, who was a successful marketing executive at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, but it stirred a response in Ivor Royston, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who saw possibilities and began searching for someone to take charge...
...taxes. Last year 43 states imposed new tax increases. Lawmakers did so at their political peril. In Michigan, two state senators who supported Governor James Blanchard's 38% income tax increase in 1983 were recalled by irate voters. But while voters balked at the medicine, they appreciated the cure. Michigan's deficit has shrunk from $1.7 billion to $250 million in the past two years, and a proposal to roll back taxes to 1982 levels was soundly rejected at the polls last month...
Unfortunately, the antidotes most likely to cure the nation of its deficit ills--a slowdown in military spending and increased taxes--are the the remedies the President is least willing to prescribe. When Administration spokesmen said that in the current budget everyone's ox would get gored, they omitted to mention the sacred cow defense, now tentatively pencilled in for a $42 billion spending increase...