Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experimental injection departs from traditional vaccines, which are made from weakened or killed viruses. Reason: the AIDS virus is so dangerous, scientists fear that once inside the body, even a killed version could revive itself and prove deadly. Thus the MicroGeneSys product, called VaxSyn, and most other AIDS vaccines under development depend on using only parts of the virus in the hope that these bits and pieces will spark enough immune protection...
...bull markets rose from far lower price levels; in dollar terms there has never been anything remotely resembling the current market binge. The Wilshire Index of the combined value of 5,000 stocks has climbed $2.2 trillion in the past five years, equal to half the U.S. gross national product of $4.4 trillion...
...environment. Rifkin, who contends that man-made bacteria might proliferate out of control, demanded that the EPA and other agencies "immediately terminate" the experiment and destroy the trees. But EPA Spokesman Al Heier, acknowledging that the agency's regulations are "somewhat complex," said "nature has enough controls that this product would not get out of hand. That's likely what our final determination will...
...biggest players certainly came out swinging last week in Manhattan, where both IBM and Tandy staged long-awaited product announcements. In a much ballyhooed presentation party at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Tandy introduced two personal-computer models targeted for use in high schools and colleges, another aimed at the office market and a lap-top model designed for executives on the go. The occasion gave the Texas-based company a chance to renew its claim of having pioneered the mass marketing of personal computers with the August 1977 introduction of its model TRS-80. For Tandy Chairman John Roach...
...strategy adopted by Chairman John Akers, 52, a Yale-educated former Navy pilot who has a low tolerance for mediocre performance. Instead of allowing IBM (1986 revenues: $51 billion) to rest on its dominant position in the market for large computers, Akers decided the company should revamp its entire product line and go after all segments of the business...