Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from $21.50 per room to $1,100 for the entire floor that some groups require.) There are problems along with the prosperity, however. The restaurant's coffee cream has been laced with LSD from time to time; coke at the Hyatt comes in powder form as often as liquid; people occasionally collapse in the hotel's public bathrooms from one kind of overdose or another. Last year alone, 40 police busts and 65 citizen's arrests were made on the premises...
...Amos Nur. It is based upon a sudden cracking and expansion of rock along a fault zone in the earth when stresses reach a critical point. This cracking creates many tiny cavities in the water-saturated rock. That slows the passage of P (pressure) waves, which travel faster through liquid-filled cracks. Another kind of seismic wave, the S (shear) wave, however, is less affected by the newly opened cracks; thus the usual ratio of P-to S-wave velocity drops sharply. Then, as ground water gradually seeps into the new cracks, the ratio returns to normal. But the water...
Rand's plan for destroying tumors required an even more powerful magnetic field. To get it, he used an electromagnet cooled by liquid helium to near absolute zero. That produced superconductivity: the virtual disappearance of electrical resistance in the magnet. This allowed a greatly increased flow of current and boosted the strength of the magnet to 3½ times that of the best alternate magnet available...
Iron Pellets. Rand then capitalized on the fact that tumors cut off from their blood supply die because they are unable to obtain nourishment or pass off wastes. To starve a tumor in one of his patients, Rand injected liquid silicone containing microscopic iron spheres into a blood vessel near the tumor. He waited until the material was carried through capillaries and into the tumor itself, then switched on his strategically placed magnet, which attracted the iron pellets and fixed them in the tumor. The spheres confined the viscous, quick-setting silicone, preventing it from entering the main bloodstream, where...
...died on March 14 of a liver ailment, at age 41, he left a will that extended his benevolence, posthumously, to all three. Along with bequests to his two children, he donated $6,000 to each of two favorite East Side Manhattan bars "to defray the cost of liquid refreshments for their patrons until such sums shall be exhausted." A millionaire by inheritance ("He didn't do anything," says one drinking crony), McKelvy laid down no rules about how his money should be spent, whether on friends or strangers, regular customers or freeloaders. The manager at one bar, Gregory...