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Though no final decision has been reached, Justice's lawyers will probably demand that Du Pont sell its stock on the open market. But they are not likely to ask Du Pont to dump the entire 64 million shares all at once-something that would not only disrupt the market but also cost Du Pont a $600 million to $700 million capital-gains tax (25%) in one lump. To ease the pinch, the Justice Department favors a more moderate plan, under which Du Pont's stock in G.M. would go into a temporary, nonvoting trust, which in turn...
While the advance of the ribbons of pavement will benefit the lives of many Americans, it will harshly disrupt the lives of many others. More than 2,000,000 acres of land will have to be bought to make way for the federal highway network alone. Roads will slice through densely populated cities and suburbs, displacing thousands of dwellers. They will cut across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week...
...Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production of blood elements, causing dangerous anemia and other side effects. Using a technique first developed on mice, Overman has saved monkeys after exposure to normally lethal radiation (700 roentgens) by injections of bone marrow from nonirradiated monkeys...
Though Lyndon Johnson and his fellow Democratic conservatives will doubtless serve on the Ziffren-spawned committee for the sake of appearances, they have no intention of letting him disrupt their plans for running the party. But neither can they feel as complacent as they once did, harassed by the buzzing of the new persistent gadfly from California...
...upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental ill health must be reckoned as one in one, for there isn't a person who does not experience frequently a mental or emotional disturbance severe enough to disrupt his functioning as a welladjusted, happy and efficiently performing individual...