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...quote two other academics who refer to A.I.A.'s activities as "spying" and "ideological espionage." A.I.A. will obtain information from students regularly enrolled in courses. The lectures they attend are not secret, and the students have every right to tell anyone what has been said...
...time, the main drawback of the treatment is likely to be price. Schering will not discuss the current cost of its interferon, but according to a spokesman, the company hopes "to have the product at an affordable level after FDA approval," which could take months or even years to obtain. Unless the price of interferon drops substantially, its most practical use may be to protect those most endangered by colds: people with asthma, cancer patients whose resistance is low and the elderly...
...commission, headed by Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, charged that mobsters are "increasingly using labor unions as a tool to obtain monopoly power in some industries." It said the Teamsters, the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union and the Laborers' International Union are all "substantially influenced and/or controlled by organized crime...
After years of eye-popping damage awards and shortsighted industry practices, buyers of liability policies face crippling bills--if they can obtain coverage at all. The crisis is hampering the operations of countless businessmen, professionals and government officials. But in the end it affects everyone, since the exploding cost of insurance is inevitably passed on to consumers...
...touched by the long-awaited release of Soviet Dissident Shcharansky. I admire the psychological stamina that kept him going for those eight long years. But the person who deserves the loudest applause is his wife Avital, for her ceaseless efforts to obtain his freedom. Jerry Sahagun Los Angeles...