Word: johnson
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Developed by Bruce Johnson, a local computer hobbyist, the program saved the life of Clyde Ritter, 73, when he fell into a diabetic coma, and rescued another older resident, whose hands had become stuck in a window...
...highly reliable. It can now help eliminate the virus from the blood supply. The inexpensive test (about $2 per blood sample) is expected to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration this year and marketed early in 1990 by Chiron and Ortho Diagnostics Systems, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Said Dr. S. Gerald Sandler, medical director for blood services of the American Red Cross: "This is a very significant scientific achievement that virtually closes the chapter on post-transfusion hepatitis...
What is it about Texas politicians and greed? First there was the furor over John Tower's defense contracting, and now the Jim Wright scandal. Hark back to John Connally's tangled legal history, and recall the get-rich-on-the-public- payroll legacy of Lyndon Johnson. On the national stage, those Texans who have avoided this moral indictment seem to be those who were born rich, like George Bush or Senator Lloyd Bentsen...
Imagine, if you can, living someday in an America where nobody under the age of 40 can remember names like Pepsi-Cola or Ford or Howard Johnson's. Impossible! So on a drive from New York City to Washington not long ago, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to stop for lunch at the next Howard Johnson's. A hot dog and some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic...
...that was just an appetizer to the prospect of a Howard Johnson's ice- cream cone containing one of the famous 28 flavors. Chocolate or coffee (or maple walnut) might be good enough for parents, but if one was an inquisitive and competitive boy with a mania for collecting things, the obvious challenge was to eat all 28 flavors. This was not so easy as it might seem, for not all Howard Johnson's restaurants carried all 28 flavors. Nor was it as pleasant as it might seem either, for there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason...