Word: potentionally
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Last week the Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to lovastatin. The move will give millions of Americans a potent new ally in their battle against heart disease, the nation's No. 1 killer. Developed and manufactured by Merck & Co., the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, the drug will be ) marketed under the trade name Mevacor. It is the first of a new class of compounds specifically designed to control cholesterol production. Says Scott Grundy, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas: "This is the first practical treatment...
...prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in to government pressure, he admits that his initial refusal to negotiate was wrongheaded. "I thought they ((the union leaders)) were too young and inexperienced with company affairs to represent all the workers," says the 71-year-old Chung. "After I met with them personally, I found out I had been wrong...
...smaller European competitors -- Switzerland's Brown, Boveri and Sweden's ASEA -- announced a plan to merge their main operating divisions into a joint venture that would boast annual sales of more than $15 billion and employ some 160,000 workers. The new ASEA Brown Boveri should be a potent competitor in the global market for heavy electrical products, among them generating plants, high-speed trains and broadcasting equipment...
...Bolshoi has a potent secret weapon. The major revelation of the tour is the U.S. debut of Irek Mukhamedov, 27, a thrilling performer whose presence almost legitimizes all the excesses of Soviet realism. Perhaps the best offering in the tour repertory is the second act of Spartacus, which closes the "Highlights" program. The choreography is little more than an astounding series of leaps and runs. Mukhamedov's entrance is a cadenza of high, bullet- fast jumps. He becomes a projectile of the Roman slaves' insurrection, ending the torrid first scene by rushing downstage to the footlights in an embodiment...
Dealers offered them marijuana, heroin and crack; one peddler, mistaking a Soviet cigarette for something more potent, offered to buy up all the visitor could deliver. Astonished that much of the illegal enterprise was conducted while policemen stood nearby, Dr. Andrei Vrublevsky said selling drugs on the street "would be impossible in our country. If a dealer did do that, he would be taken in to the police, with the help of citizens...