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...stock price of more than a third since the scandal broke, few are counting Solly out. The firm still maintains substantial resources and a loyal following. Says Samuel Hayes III, a finance professor at Harvard University: "Salomon will emerge from this episode, bloodied and bruised, but just as potent a force on Wall Street...
...country, his era and himself, Soviets and Westerners alike wondered whether there was anything he couldn't do. Wasn't there some innovation so radical, or some capitulation so abject, that he simply couldn't get away with it? Like scientists pondering the limits of an anomalous but potent force of nature, Kremlinologists speculated about the existence of a "red line" that Gorbachev could not cross without reaping the whirlwind...
...told Vice President John Adams, immigrants will "get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people." This was the ideal that a century later Israel Zangwill crystallized in the title of his popular 1908 play The Melting Pot. And no institution was more potent in molding / Crevecoeur's "promiscuous breed" into Washington's "one people" than the American public school...
With flying fingers, fine sutures and a potent arsenal of drugs, surgical teams have become so successful at transplanting organs that the demand for viable tissue has far outstripped supply. In 1967, the first person ever to feel the beat of another man's heart in his own chest survived for just 18 days after the operation. Today, more than eight out of 10 heart recipients live at least a year with their borrowed organs. For kidney transplants, first-year survival tops 90%. As success rates soar, doctors attempt ever more variations on the transplant theme: installing a new pancreas...
...that tends to create a climate in which cronyism and favoritism can flourish. In addition, the Guards are a potent force in local and congressional elections; the lawmakers who support hefty budgets for units filled with their constituents don't like to be told by critics that the money is not being well spent. On top of that, some Guard officers fear that a determined drive to raise attendance and training standards could lead to massive disgruntlement in the ranks and a wave of resignations. Says Colonel Patrick Garvey, commander of Camp Smith, a Guard facility in Peekskill...