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Cairns said Friday that although he believed that the vast amount of money spent each year on cancer research is justified, scientists are far from discovering a cure for the disease...
Dear Abby: What is the cure for a man who has been married for 33 years and still can't stay away from other women? His Wife
Faced with these interlocking cycles of misery, many Americans, both consumers and businessmen, seem to be giving up hope for a cure and accommodating themselves to the situation. Union members benefiting from automatic cost of living adjustments generally consider themselves insulated from inflation and show little concern about what those pay boosts do to their employers' costs. Many businessmen, meanwhile, increase their prices despite-or sometimes because of -weak demand. Two weeks ago, General Motors hiked the cost of its cars by an average of $149, although its sales fell by 22% in December, compared with the same month...
...dangerous-new technology. Only lately has their firm, Genentech Inc.. begun to turn a profit. But its prototype bacterial factories have been extremely busy. They have already produced half a dozen different substances, including insulin, human growth hormone and interferon, the antiviral agent being investigated as a cancer cure. Genentech (pronounced jeh-nen-tek) has also paid off handsomely for Boyer (his initial investment: $500). Offered publicly last October, its stock shot up within 20 minutes to $89 a share from an initial price of $35. Even near year's end, after it settled back to around...
Shelley Duvall makes a fine Olive Oyl lookalike, but Popeye, as played by Robin Williams, appears to be undergoing an identity crisis far beyond the powers of spinach cure. As a result, his moral force -and he was once one of the great comic-strip exemplars of righteousness tied to a short fuse-appears sicklied o'er with the pale cast of self-absorption. The rest of the characters-excepting Swee'Pea (played by Altman's grandchild, Wesley Ivan Hurt)-are blurs of lost innocence...