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...other canyon residents worked desperately to save their property. In Mandeville Canyon, Beverly Hills Psychologist Philip Flexo and his wife Pat shoveled day and night to divert a stream of mud and water from their $250,000 home. No matter what happened to the house, Flexo vowed not to leave the canyon permanently. Said he: "We moved here to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Despite the fires, rains, flood and muds, I won't move...
...University of Arizona started performing heart transplants ten months ago with a minimal capital investment and has not had to divert its resources to the operation, Dr. Jack G. Copland, associate professor of surgery at U. of Arizona, said...
...Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Board of Trustees decided last week that the institutions will not perform heart transplants because the operations would divert too large a proportion of resources to a limited number of patients...
Nearly half the total deliveries entered as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene and other products from refineries throughout the Caribbean. Now much of the loss will have to be made up by having companies divert non-Iranian oil to the Caribbean refineries, while sending the Iranian crude to European refineries instead. That will mean steeper prices for Europeans because much Iranian oil is being sold at prices far above the official OPEC maximum...
Another spur is that profits of ten of the largest oil companies increased an average of 94% in this year's third quarter, and managers have attempted to divert public criticism by pumping up exploration budgets. A number of independents are still holding back until the windfall profits tax reaches final form. The Senate has proposed that newly discovered oil and certain categories of low-volume wells be exempt. Some oilmen hope that the first 1,000 bbl. per day from an independent producer's well will be free from the tax. Says Jack Allen, president...