Word: fractionation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep a Texan down. Only last week John Connally, the bankrupt former Governor, auctioned off personal belongings ranging from saddles to paintings for $2.75 million. That is only a fraction of the $48.75 million that Connally's failed real estate empire still owes. But Connally may have a ! promising new job lined up. An old friend, Edward Bennett Williams, the high- powered Washington lawyer, is said to be thinking of inviting him to join his law firm...
...beaut. The famed Japanese electronics firm started a home-entertainment revolution when it introduced Betamax, the original home-videocassette recorder, in 1975. Before long, however, competitors arrived in force with another type of VCR, dubbed VHS, which offered buyers more recording capacity. Sony gradually lost all but a tiny fraction of one of the richest markets in the consumer electronics business. Last week Sony said it will begin selling VHS players, in addition to Beta models, later this year. Inevitable as the move may have been, it was tantamount to Denver Broncos Quarterback John Elway walking onto the field wearing...
...great Crash of 1929 prompted considerable anxieties about whether this new bear market would lead once again to a major recession -- or worse. As in 1929, many of the experts declared that the economy was fundamentally strong and predicted better times ahead. But the market recovered only a fraction of its October losses, the record trade deficits continued, and the dollar kept sinking. It was partly a question of public confidence, and the ebullient optimism that had helped to re-elect Reagan now appeared a thing of the past...
Meiman's story encapsulates the human-rights situation in the Soviet Union. Those who apply to leave risk harassment, loss of jobs and the prospect of years of empty waiting. Although Jewish emigration has grown from 914 in 1986 to about 8,000 this year, it is only a fraction of the 51,322 permitted to emigrate in the peak year of 1979. The State Department estimates that 400,000 Jews, out of a population of 1.8 million, would like to leave. To focus worldwide attention on Soviet human rights, a large Washington demonstration is being planned by a coalition...
...drug, called gemfibrozil, was originally approved for treatment of a pancreatic disorder. In a five-year study of more than 4,000 Finnish men, those treated with the drug suffered only two-thirds as many heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. After three years of treatment, that fraction dropped to less than half. "This is the largest decrease in coronary disease seen in any trial," said Heikki Frick, a University of Helsinki scientist who took over the study in 1986 after its originator, Cardiologist Esko Nikkila, died in an auto accident...