Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gene splicing, that have reached the market, including human insulin (1982), human growth hormone (1985) and alpha interferon (1986). The FDA approval of Recombivax HB is expected to give a big boost to the public image of an industry that has been more promising than profitable. Said Chiron President Edward Penhoet: "We think this vaccine will usher in a whole new generation of vaccines...
Officials announced earlier that Secretary ofDefense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Sep. Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and several former Cabinetofficials were among the list of distinguishedspeakers attending the Kennedy School celebration...
...woes, the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House appeared ready to prevent the Air Force from paying the space agency a scheduled fee of $566 million for military space launches that have now been put on indefinite hold. Both NASA Administrator James Fletcher and Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge hope to block this cut, which Fletcher contends would inflict "additional injury" on the U.S. space program...
...clamp a total trade embargo on South Africa and force U.S. companies to withdraw their investments. Last week the Senate headed down a similar path as it considered three draft bills calling for sanctions. "The policy of the Administration is a disgrace and an embarrassment," charged Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. "The Congress must act now to put the U.S. back on the right side of history...
...week's end Philadelphians no longer had to go out of town to dispose of their trash. Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his back-to-work order earlier in the week. Blake had ruled that the garbage constituted a "clear and present danger" to the public health and that the strikers should start cleaning up the mess. Mayor W. Wilson Goode then announced that he could hire 2,400 sanitation workers in 24 hours...