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...study's conclusion is the first to question the merits of the widely-used drug--an extract from the foxglove plant--which has been used against heart disease since the late 18th century Digitalis is now prescribed to over one million patients in the synthetic form dixogen...
Unaccustomed to assistance from terrorists, some officials wonder if the jailed Red Brigades may actually be spreading false information in order to confuse their captors. Cesare di Lenardo, a duro arrested in the Dozier kidnaping, accused the police of using torture to extract information. More likely, the spate of confessions is due in part to a proposed new law that could reduce the sentence of cooperative prisoners found guilty of murder or kidnaping to as little as twelve years. Most of the information provided by the terrorists has proved accurate...
...expansion than cooperation with its student members. Last year's progressive Coop Group slate ran on--and won-student directorships on a platform of higher employee wages and benefits, better working conditions, and more equitable pricing policies. Once elected, many worked hard for those goals, and did manage to extract some data from Coop management. But that...
...when he steps before a joint session of Congress and the TV cameras next week, the President will finally provide the answer: yes, he will ask for higher taxes, perhaps $40 billion to $60 billion over the next two fiscal years. If enacted-a very large if-they could extract more money from everyone who buys a beer or a pack of cigarettes or drives a car, possibly also from people who have sizable medical expenses or run up charge-account bills...
...Italian officials last week agreed that neither country would negotiate with the terrorists. At the same time, NATO headquarters in Brussels issued a statement saying that the Red Brigades had made a serious error if they expected to extract military secrets from Dozier. The general was described as being a specialist only in logistics and support activity, not in defense plans for the alliance...