Word: est
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Genentech (est. 1983 revenues: $45 million), one of the industry founders, remains the model for other gene-splicing firms. Started in 1976, the South San Francisco firm now employs 110 Ph.D.s. This year the company hopes to put on the market a human growth hormone that is said to enable abnormally small children to develop as large as normal ones. It also s expects to have two breakthrough products in human evaluation tests...
Glenn charged ahead: "Let me finish. I'm disgusted and tired of all the vague promises." Now Mondale got worked up. "Point of personal privilege!" he shouted. But Glenn would not yield: he blamed the Carter Administration for its "21% inter est rates" and declared, "That's why we lost the White House." Shot back Mondale: "There's just been about a six-minute speech, all of it baloney...
...great last words traditionally included in anthologies have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...near the resort village of Herrenalb in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. In the hills above the quaint Black Forest town, the dark evergreens that gave the region its name are dying, victims of a blight that is destroying an alarming amount of the for est acreage of heavily industrialized West Germany. In the central state of Hesse, 10% of the spruce are now gone; in the northern city-state of Hamburg, almost 25% of the pines are suffering. Southern Germany has been hit most severely: more than half the trees...
...President slumped over on the seat of his car, blood pouring from a wound in his right temple. He was rushed to the emergency room of Parkland Hospital, where he died about 2 p.m. (EST). Gov. Connally was also shot and rushed to an emergency operation...