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...week's end all of the members of the class have successfully entered the gray zone. Two have achieved and maintained this state with the help of an insulin pump, a still-experimental device that mechanically injects a maintenance dose of insulin into the body throughout the day. For all the demands and nuisance of the tight-control regimen, most graduates say it has given them greater freedom. Instead of being told they must never eat ice cream or alter their meal times, they can be more flexible and occasionally enjoy forbidden foods, as long as they adjust their...
...billion in deposits. First National responded by tightening its loan policy, selling its headquarters for $75 million, and in July hiring a new president, Thomas Wageman, formerly president of Chicago's LaSalle National Bank. Its directors, who include some of Texas' wealthiest oilmen, pledged to pump in some $40 million. But First National had drilled itself too deep a hole. Its percentage of nonpaying loans (about 25% of assets) is the highest of any large bank in the U.S. By the time the FDIC stepped in last week, the Federal Reserve had already extended $664 million in emergency...
...action, first brought last May, documented the highlights of Newhouse's rise. He began by purchasing the Staten Island Advance while still in his 20s, and then used the profits to acquire increasingly larger properties. Throughout his career, the IRS said, Newhouse shunned big dividends in order to pump corporate earnings into new acquisitions. His purchases of dailies like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister, the States-Item (for $42 million in 1962), set records for the amount spent on newspapers. In 1976, Newhouse outbid Times Mirror for the Booth Newspapers of Michigan, whose holdings included...
...United States and has slowed almost everywhere else. The U.S.'s impressive start toward full recovery suggests that Europe will soon experience the same rejuvenation. Thus the Northen market for Third World exports looks better than it has in years, and developing nations should be "priming the pump" for a renewed program of industrial building...
Body Builder Lisa Lyon, 30, is too busy these days to pump much iron. The U.C.L.A. anthropology graduate, who can dead-lift 225 lbs., has written and appeared in two pictorial bestsellers (Lady; Lisa Lyon's Body Magic) that feature muscle-bulging poses she calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy...