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...thrifts whose deposits it guaranteed were running out of control. But neither Congress nor the Reagan-Bush White House was willing in the midst of an election to force an up-front resolution. Danny M. Wall, who oversaw the FSLIC, sought investors from outside the S&L business to pump new capital into the failures but by September had made just 35 deals...
...nothing else, the crisis in the Persian Gulf has served to remind us that our supply of energy is critically important and chronically unreliable. While everyone is still conscious of the crisis at the gas pump, it's time to re-establish reliable and renewable energy as a top national priority. A few suggestions...
...Miami city commission is considering a novel scheme to help defray the operating costs of the city's new Claude and Mildred Pepper Fountain. A machine to be located nearby may charge citizens a rate of $21 an hour to turn on the pump. And, yes, it will accept credit cards...
...provide the body with healthy replacement genes that can fulfill the intended role of defective ones. "Gene therapy is actually a sophisticated drug-delivery system," Anderson explains. "Anything given now by injection -- growth factor, factor VIII, insulin -- you can just engineer the patient's own cells to pump them out. The advantage is that it's a one-time treatment...
...through small price increases, not in sending the industrialized world into an economic crisis. Saddam needs funds to rebuild his economy in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War and to strengthen his position as the new superpower of the Arab world. The current price inflation at the gas pump, after all, owes more to the U.N. sanctions and blockade--and to oil company profiteering--than to Iraqi manipulation of the crude oil market...