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...Pergonal, which can result in the development of more than one egg at a time. By using hormonal stimulants, Howard Jones "harvests" an average of 5.8 eggs per patient; it is possible to obtain as many as 17. "I felt like a pumpkin ready to burst," recalls Loretto Leyland, 33, of Melbourne, who produced eleven eggs at an Australian clinic, one of which became her daughter...
...after coming to power in 1979, Thatcher and her Conservative Party took steps to sell the assets of numerous firms to private investors. About half of Britoil (1983 pretax profits: $762 million) is now in private hands, as is all of the Jaguar automobile division of BL, formerly British Leyland...
...years it has been one of Britain's largest welfare cases. The state-owned automaker BL PLC* (once known as British Leyland) lost more than $3 billion between 1978 and 1982 and has slurped up $4.6 billion of government handouts since 1975. Things are now looking brighter, since BL has just finished its best year in a decade. Industry experts estimate that the company will have cut its losses from a peak of $803 million in 1980 to $77 million for the first half...
...Japanese are usually minutely well informed about their prospective partners. Recalls a onetime official of BL PLC (formerly British Leyland) who worked on a joint agreement with Honda: "The Japanese negotiators seemed to know more about our labor and managerial problems than...
...Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) is planning an "emergency press conference" for the day after the first prosecution, no matter when or where the suit taken place. The conference, BAARD member Nora H. Leyland said, will take place at the Arlington St. Church, and will feature Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock was one of four people arrested at that site in the late 1960s for draft resistance activities...