Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second act seems like the product of a very sick mind and is weird beyond all expectations. Neuroses become paranoia. Fantasies start to impose on reality. Symbols start to contradict themselves. And finally, reality explodes. As Andy points out, "Nothing is what it is. No one is who he seems...
...years ago, the Sacher family called in Gerber, who headed the Zurich Insurance Co., to take over Hoffmann-La Roche, whose Valium profits had tranquilized it into lethargy. He streamlined the administration, production and research and set out to find a new generation of superstar drugs. The antibiotic Rocephin, which had worldwide sales last year of $445 million, is currently the firm's largest-selling product. Valium, though, remains the second-best seller. Last week the company reported that 1988 profits had risen to $389 million, up 33% from the previous year, on sales of $5.3 billion. Now that Hoffmann...
Petrasso said a graph Pons and Fleischmann published to describe the energy released in their experiment was erroneous, and he said that gamma rays, a by-product of fusion reactions, were not emitted in the experiment...
...Another product sketch, this time for "Sculptionary," (a variation on the game "Pictionary") succeeds mainly because of its quick-shifting camera shots, its high-energy acting and the brevity of the clip itself...
Danger is integral to the booming crank business, especially in the retailing end, where double crosses are as much a threat as arrest. In a far different territory from the backcountry rendezvous, Surfer Jim, a jobber of the Product, sits in a car in his sales district near glossy Newport Beach, Calif. Just back from a cruise to Jamaica with his wife, the tanned 26-year- old has been thinking things over. "I'm second generation in this, you know, and I don't want my kids to be the third." He jiggles a foot and flops one go-ahead...