Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffering from injuries, hemophilia or such diseases as leukemia and aplastic anemia. Because voluntary donations fall short of the amount that hospitals need, much of the blood used for transfusions came from Skid Row derelicts or drug addicts who sold it for the price of a bottle or a fix. Many of those blood peddlers had hepatitis. Thus every year an estimated 17,000 cases of hepatitis result from transfused blood. One in twenty of these patients eventually dies from the debilitating liver disease...
This extreme right operates under Petros Garouphalias, and unites dedicated royalists with stragglers from the junta under the name of the National Democratic Union (EDE). As the owner of the nation's largest brewery, Fix, Garouphalias is a classic representative of the economic oligarchy in a small country...
...economic message last month, recommended a maximum fine of $1 million, v. the present $50,000, against corporations that violate the antitrust laws. Last week Attorney General William Saxbe added that the Department of Justice will more frequently bring criminal charges against businessmen it catches participating in price-fixing conspiracies. When Congress returns after the elections, the department will press it to classify antitrust violations as felonies rather than misdemeanors and increase the maximum prison sentence for such violations to five years, from one year at present. (Even that sentence is almost never imposed; the longest jail terms meted...
...wish I was Red Fix's daughter...
...determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer, he has written "because I am a noctambulist, and the aspects of the capital at night fired and excited...