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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, the doctors decided to try an untested therapy on Leide and five other patients who were likely to die. With Gale's guidance, they attempted to revitalize the irradiated bone marrow. GM-CSF, or granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor, is one of at least five hormones that boost the production of white blood cells in the marrow. In cancer patients, CSFs seem to offset the deleterious effects of radiation and chemotherapy on the marrow, thus making larger doses safer to use. Gale wondered if the hormones would work the same magic on people who had been accidentally irradiated...
...Religious Right and quickens speculation on its prospects in the next phase. Even as Pat Robertson escalates his evangelically inspired presidential bid, recent tidings seem to amount to a threnody of waning influence for the movement. Television ministries have had a particularly rocky time. The Contribute or Else I Die campaign of Oral Roberts disgusted many Americans as well as his own church, which ruled last month that Roberts' status is not, and never has been, that of a United Methodist clergyman. Above all, the horrendous PTL scandal has harmed the image of TV preachers. And still, PTL's dethroned...
Should the bill fail to reach the floor before December 31, it will die in committee, causing a breakdown in the planning of the museum. The donor of the land, Sprague Technologies, and the art collectors have committed themselves only until the end of 1987, after which the land and the art may go to other owners...
...MOTTO, do or die, and preferring the former I gun the V-8 amid screeching spew of dead dry earth--our yacht is afloat once more, roaring toward the casinos over the horizon, beckoning invisibly but offering no hope or suggestion as to what a trio of young men ought to do when, the roaring onset of hydropowered blotter acid moments away, the conservative governor of California hitches a ride: "Say fellas. Where are you headed?"--but there is a roaring in my ears and I think he is calling us "heads" and so pinned down and in duress...
...million cap on interest deductions for debt resulting from takeovers. The measure would inhibit corporate raids, and many Wall Streeters believe the specter of the possible tax change depressed takeover stocks and thus played a role in setting off October's crash. Raiders hope the anti-takeover provision will die in House-Senate conference when lawmakers realize that the tax could drive stock prices still lower...