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Several Harvard admissions officers said yesterday that although they sympathized with some of Slack's criticisms, the benefits of the tests outweigh their faults...
Advocates of recombinant DNA research have been insisting that potential benefits from the ingenious new technique of genetic engineering far outweigh any dangers that it could pose. Last week scientists testifying before a Senate subcommittee lent strong support to that argument. They revealed that a group of California researchers has spliced a man-made gene into a bacterium, and then, for the first time, used the altered microbe to make a copy of a mammalian brain hormone that can act biologically in humans. The accomplishment brought closer the day when scarce and costly hormones and enzymes needed for treatment...
...costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder whether they could find fuel to power new plants, and at what price. Investment always involves some risk, of course, but in the minds of many executives the risks now outweigh the potential rewards. Says Grant Simmons Jr., chairman of Simmons Co., the Georgia mattress maker: "Ten years ago, management would make investment decisions on the basis of intuitive, broad-stroke guesses. Now we want to be damn sure we see the fish in the barrel before we shoot...
...JULIA's strengths much outweigh its flaws. Although Zinnemann occasionally lapses into such cliches as juxtaposing plush hotels with Nazi terror to make statements about inequality--a gimmick that should have gone out with War and Peace--his direction is usually sound and the cast generally rises above any momentary awkwardness. To some, Lillian Hellman is a heroic cult figure; to others she is a commercialized martyr. In Julia, though, she is simply human, retracing in her memory a cherished portrait...
...hardly a secret: name plates, partly in Cyrillic lettering, identify them as MADE IN THE U.S.S.R.) and often counsel reluctant customers that "it's better to trade than to shoot." Nonetheless, Chambers admits that some farmers simply refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk, Vladimir and Kirov, are less plushly fitted out than American makes...