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...unknown. On the night of Jan. 6, Joseph Granville, a flamboyant forecaster who predicts earthquakes and stock market turns with equal verve, sent some 3,000 clients the tense, terse message: "Sell everything. Market top has been reached." That warning triggered a two-day, 39-point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average...
...drive to cut the prune. When it dropped the rate in August 1971, President Nixon sent the bank a telegram saying: "I was particularly heartened by the positive action." An other Southwest-led reduction in the prime on Sept. 16, 1976, resulted in an 8.64-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average. And in April 1980, commodity prices advanced broadly on the day of a Southwest decrease. The St. Louis bankers proudly claim that a meeting of the world's financial powerbrokers at the International Monetary Fund was once interrupted by news that tiny Southwest...
...million damages suit names the professor, Albert Kligman, as well as the University, the Dow Chemical Company, and the Federal government as defendants...
Kligman, well-known dermatologist and an expert on such ailments as acne and athlete's foot, performed experiments with the chemical dioxin on many inmates during the 1960s, with grants from Dow and the U.S. Department of Defense...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last January investigated Kligman's dioxin experiments. A former Dow worker claimed during the EPA hearings that Kligman went well beyond the guidelines for the dioxin experiments approved by Dow and the university...