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Wall Street, though, soon saw the high hurdles that lay ahead for biotech companies. After a new drug is developed, it must go through five to six years of painstaking tests in animals and human patients before it can win the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, a new firm faces the formidable tasks of equipping factories to mass-produce new drugs and building a national sales force to distribute them. Uncertain that the new biotech companies were up to the job, investors grew wary. Genentech's stock slipped to a low of about...
...dangers of being photographed, which may have something to do with the hazards of celebrity in general. Everybody is composed of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, the theory said. Since man is not able to create something out of nothing, each photograph must lay hold of, detach and use up one of the layers of the body on which it was focused. The self is peeled away like an onion...
...long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish speakers called playas and the English speakers called buffalo wallows. This would be known as the oil business, pronounced locally "thawlbidness...
...over briefing books and prepared for his first eyeball-to-eyeball summit with a leader of a nation he has made a career of denouncing, Secretary of State George Shultz flew to Moscow with National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and a dozen-odd other U.S. officials last week to lay the final groundwork for the meeting. The American team was whisked to Osobnyak, the czarist-era mansion where Soviet diplomats often conduct business. "We always expect good results from meetings," said Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze before escorting his visitors into the white marble meeting room. It was a friendly opening...
...dismantle the dictatorship and restore democracy. If we win the election, that will have been achieved. Then we will attack the peace-and-order problem. We believe that given a democratic system and a credible leadership, if we issue a general amnesty to all political offenders, 90% will lay down their arms because we believe 90% of the people who have joined the New People's Army are not Communists. They are just disgusted with the Marcos regime...