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...going to be in a position to submit data, and full data, by early next week," Sachs said. He said he and other lawyers with the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering have been interviewing potential witnesses and examining documents associated with the case...
...market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...
Lyphomed defends its pentamidine price by citing high research-and- developmen t costs. The firm announced last June that it would make the drug available free of charge to patients who have no insurance, but the + company is still working out details of the program. Last month the People with AIDS Health Group, based in New York City, began importing small quantities of pentamidine from Britain. Reason: a month's supply of the European version, which is made by the French firm Rhone-Poulenc, costs just...
William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...suspect sheep, and Jordan and Egypt would not even take them free. An Italian company finally offered to take them on consignment for resale in Europe, but Egypt balked at allowing the sheep through the Suez Canal and escorted the ship out of Egyptian waters. Last week the firm posted a $250,000 guarantee that no sheep or carcasses would be dumped in the canal, and the ship set sail for Italy. That seems like a happy ending, except possibly from the point of view of the sheep...