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...million are announced. Most vulnerable are the 300,000 people, mostly fathers, who owe more than $1.3 billion in child support. For them, and for recipients of food stamps and other forms of welfare whose benefits would be halted if they won, the thrill of winning may prove to be hollow. FLORIDA Miami Virtue, Miami Vice...
...young biotechnology industry has already shown that it can perform miracles of science, creating marvelous synthetic molecules with the potential to attack cancer or stop heart attacks. Now the genetic engineering companies are out to prove that they can work the same magic in the marketplace, turning those wonder drugs into profitmakers. Last week Genentech, an industry leader based in south San Francisco, began selling its first drug product for humans: Protropin, a growth hormone used to treat dwarfism in children. Genentech had previously developed Humulin, a synthetic insulin, but licensed it to an established pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, which...
...wants an easing of tensions with the U.S. in order to concentrate on pepping up the Soviet economy, but he has not made clear and perhaps not decided himself how far he is willing to modify Soviet policy to do so. At the moment he needs not only to prove to his colleagues in Moscow's collective leadership that he is not caving in to the U.S., but to keep foreign affairs relatively quiet. Consequently, says one Administration official, "Gorbachev does not lose by having a fairly flat outcome to the summit...
...they might be a "maneuver" by the Soviet Union on the eve of the Geneva summit. "Coming as they do together," he told reporters, "you can't rule out the possibility that this might have been a deliberate ploy." But, Reagan candidly admitted, "there is no way we can prove or disprove it." As for Yurchenko, the President acknowledged that he was genuinely confounded. Said Reagan: "I think it's awfully easy for any American to be perplexed by anyone who could live in the United States and would prefer to live in Russia...
...most Machiavellian view of last week's events, however, opposition intransigence may ultimately prove to be exactly what Marcos wanted all along. Said a Western diplomat: "Marcos acts in a very tactical way to almost everything, and it is conceivable that his idea in calling the elections was to test a number of things. If the elections are blocked because they are declared unconstitutional, for example, he can say that he tried and he can blame it on those nasty oppositionists...