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...additional $23,000. Begelman, when found out, admitted his guilt. In almost any other industry, a company executive caught with his hand in the till would be abruptly dismissed. Not so, apparently, in Hollywood. Begelman, who submitted himself to psychiatric care, was simply suspended. After his analyst announced a cure, Begelman-who had paid back his ill-got gains-was reinstated as chief of Columbia's motion pictures and television operations...
Before the Dutch elm disease struck in 1930, there were 77 million elms in U.S. cities and towns. Now there are 34 million and the disease has spread to 41 states. The Federal Government will spend about $4 million to seek a cure and control the disease this year. How feeble that is. We pay about $6 million a year for special limousine and airplane service for Washington's Government bigwigs. The Dutch elm disease has denuded whole communities, devastated suburbs, cost billions in neighborhood devaluation and incalculable aesthetic loss that some experts say has markedly altered home environments...
...telltale phosphatase elevation in the blood of 33% of patients in the early, first stage of the disease. 79% of second-stage cases. 71% third stage and 92% of the cases in the fourth and final stage-when the disease is often far too advanced for any hope of cure. By contrast, they report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the traditional blood test for prostatic cancer, which involves color measurement of a product of the enzyme's activity, identified the rise of enzyme levels in only 12%, 15%, 29% and 60% of their patients at corresponding stages...
...repeated warnings from the Cambridge Experiment Review Board (CERB), a team of Harvard biologists presses on with what it calls "ground-breaking" experiments using even more obscure strains of E. coli recombinant DNA. At 11:30 on December 31, the head of the research team announces that "a cancer cure may be only fifteen minutes away." At midnight, he turns into a pumpkin...
...despite the concern about political consequences, there was considerable satisfaction among Republicans as well as Democrats that Congress had finally agreed on legislation to restore the Social Security system's financial health. The cure-tax increases amounting to $227 billion over the next ten years-passed the Senate by a vote of 56 to 21 and the House by 189 to 163. Declared a pleased Jimmy Carter: "It's a good resolution of a very serious problem...