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...specialist in the treatment of drug abuse, Gold, along with two collaborators, pioneered the use of nonopiate drugs in treating heroin addiction. Gold persuaded the Fair Oaks trustees, in the absence of any chemical neutralizing agent for cocaine, to invest $50,000 in a hot line. Says Gold: "If you have no treatment for the disease, but it is in fact preventable, you should do what you can to prevent...
...directing Finian's Rainbow. Coppola, who remains a friend, later helped him find backing for his feature, THX 1138 (1971), a chilling look at a futuristic world in which people live underground and numbers have replaced names. American Graffiti came next. Its success persuaded 20th Century-Fox to invest money in Lucas' strange script about chirping robots, Jedi knights and a form of hocus-pocus called the Force...
Unlike with other responsibilities explicitly mapped out in their constitution, council members lacked a directive in this area. The practice of periodically passing empty resolutions was an easy out--a way to invest minimal council energy and avoid potentially endless theoretical debate...
Caterpillar plans to shore up its finances by a new stock issue. The company, which borrowed more than $800 billion at high rates over the past twelve months, said last week that it intends to sell 5 million shares in May and invest the proceeds in new plant and equipment. Caterpillar stock had been rising despite the strike and closed last week...
...companies that upgrade their workers' skills and offer training to the unemployed. Reich would discourage takeovers by disqualifying from normal tax deductions any interest on loans to finance mergers. He would replace the personal income tax with a consumption tax to enlarge the pool of capital for investment. Under this scheme, all earnings that individuals save or invest, rather than spend, would be taxexempt...