Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Domino's Pizza, the company that cooked up a $2 billion fast-food dynasty by peddling Italian fare, is again looking to Italy for inspiration. Domino's announced last week that as part of its new headquarters complex near Ann Arbor, Mich., it plans to erect a 30-story tower that will lean to the east at a 15 degree angle, much like the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...decision was a shocker on Wall Street, where biotechnology stocks had been big winners. After the FDA ruling, the price of Genentech's shares plunged 11 1/2 points in one day, to 36 3/4. By the end of last week the price stood at 37 3/4. A domino effect also knocked down the stocks of rival biotech firms, some of which are developing drugs similar to t-PA. Such futuristic- sounding companies as Amgen, Biogen, Centocor, Cetus and Chiron saw their shares drop anywhere from 7% to 11% before recovering some of those losses...
...where Surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback over Couch's own ailing heart. By 10 a.m. the exhausted physicians had completed their tasks and made American medical history. It marked the first time in the U.S. that a living individual had donated his heart, in what is termed a "domino donor" organ exchange. Officials at London's Harefield Hospital revealed last week that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually been first to use the domino approach there in April...
...rare "domino transplant," a Baltimore man with cystic fibrosis receives a new heart and lungs, then donates his own heart...
...contras. But Fitzwater's response was carefully hedged. Said he: "In the legal view of the White House, the President is not a part of this conspiracy." Another aide fretted about what might be next in the chain of criminal charges: "These pleas tend to set up a domino effect, with one target leading to others. We have no real idea where it's going...