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...products from the Food and Drug Administration is expensive and timeconsuming. Notes Cetus President Peter Farley: "The lag time between discovery and marketing for a pharmaceutical product is five to 20 years." In addition, the four tiny DNA pioneers will be competing soon with such multinational giants as Du Pont, Upjohn and General Electric. Although the U.S. Supreme Court decreed this summer that new life forms could be patented, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has yet to rule on any of the 100 or so recombinant-DNA patents already submitted...
...assistant general manager. Heiskell was working in LIFE'S Paris office when France fell to the Germans, a particularly poignant experience for him. In his youth he had been educated in French schools, graduated from the University of Paris and had taught science at L'Ecole du Montcel near Paris. He later recalled, "Seeing a nation crumble before your eyes is extraordinary, especially when you were brought up in it and rather loved...
Exports of manufactured products have traditionally been dominated by a handful of the nation's largest companies, including Boeing, General Electric, Caterpillar Tractor, McDonnell Douglas and Du Pont. A surprising new export winner is the American textile industry, which is the world leader in productivity despite relatively high labor costs. Burlington Industries of New York, the nation's largest textile maker, with 1979 sales of $2.7 billion, saw its foreign business jump by 40% during the year. The big sellers: carpets, towels, curtains and clothing...
...briefcase of an alcoholic British headquarters officer while the silly sod makes love to a kinky belly dancer named Sonja. While Sonja wriggles, Alex scribbles, relaying this trove of vital and invaluable information to Rommel from a houseboat on the Nile, using a wireless code based on Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca...
Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont, reports that his company is recycling waste material to reduce the disposal problem and keeps a watchful eye on the contractors it uses for disposal. The most critical problem, as he sees it, is to clean up widely scattered "orphan waste sites" that no one has supervised. Says he: "Let's start with today, not worry about who did what in the past. Government and industry should work together rather than get emotional. We've got to get going rather than sitting around trying to figure out who's wearing...