Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paula Sims said her 13-day-old daughter Loralei had been abducted from her Brighton, Ill., home by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver. Police who later found Loralei's body in a wood near the house were suspicious, but could find no evidence to disprove the story. But when Paula, now living in Alton, Ill., told police there last April 29 that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying...
Ferruzzi says its purchases -- a reported 30 million bu. of soybeans in the past 18 months -- were a legal effort to ensure adequate supplies for its customers. Many traders believe Ferruzzi's two largest U.S. rivals, Archer Daniels Midland of Decatur, Ill., and Cargill of Minneapolis, felt the pinch from rising prices and complained to the c.b.o.t. Said one trader: "Older, established firms ganged up on the new, foreign kid on the block." With prices taking a near panic dive, Ferruzzi has already lost an estimated $10 million. Harder hit may be U.S. soybean farmers, who last week...
...illegal. Legislators who approve lotteries, legal horse-betting parlors or riverboat gambling are spreading the message that wagering is respectable. "Gambling has been part of every known society," says Dr. Eric Plaut, vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly endorsed. Since the government has got into the business of being an operator of gambling itself, it has given ! ((betting)) an imprimatur." A 60-year-old former bookie and member of Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles who gives...
...Drug Administration announced last week that it would allow wider use of two experimental drugs before rigorous clinical trials have conclusively established the value of these medications. AIDS patients hailed the decision, but it set precedents that could weaken the scientific safeguards that have long protected the desperately ill from quack remedies...
State-sponsored gambling is nowhere near the bonanza for states it has been sold as. Illinois and Ohio, among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie...