Word: liquidation
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...week's end Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, stopped all production in capsule form of what had been the nation's top-selling painkiller, and urged druggists across the country to remove all Tylenol capsules from their shelves. That left Tylenol available only in tablet and liquid varieties. Even as Tylenol capsules piled up in warehouses, Johnson & Johnson and other drug companies were grappling with an even more difficult, expensive and far-reaching problem: how to package over-the-counter medications to minimize the chances of tampering. Said Arthur Hull Hayes, commissioner of the Food and Drug...
Hannah, 60, a wealthy Houston land developer and space buff, had failed on his first try: a year ago, near the same Matagorda launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
...that it may one day deliver as much energy from Hawaiian waters alone as the entire U.S. now consumes. OTEC utilizes warm surface waters to heat pressurized ammonia, which vaporizes, expands and propels a power turbine. Then the gaseous ammonia is cooled by subsurface waters, converted back to a liquid and repeats the process all over again. In 1979 a floating mini-OTEC plant generated a net 15 kilowatts per hour, making it the first such plant to produce more energy than it consumes. But a larger plant built in 1981 off Kailuakona, on Hawaii, was a $50 million failure...
Thus it is hardly surprising that this liquid treasure is being eyed covetously by those less richly endowed, who live in what Michigan Governor William Milliken scornfully dubs the "parch-belt": the water-poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
...author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends to the crimson of liquid blood a nice admixture of an azure sky and the silvery gray of the fading moon...