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...officials have hired private firms to run the parks and recreation department, perform public-works inspections, provide day-care services and remove graffiti from public buildings. Mass transit in the form of comfortable vans is supplied by a company called Dial-A-Ride. Says La Mirada City Manager Gary Sloan: "In some areas, privatization has been the most efficient, cost-effective way of providing service...
JUDGMENT AGAINST. Jerry Falwell, 52, Fundamentalist preacher and Moral Majority leader; ordered to pay $5,000 to his former Bible school classmate Jerry Sloan; in Sacramento, Calif. On a TV talk show last year, Falwell promised that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been...
...outlets have sprouted around the city. They account for 85% of the independent fruit-and-vegetable stores, and have taken a 20% bite out of supermarket business. "They've forced retailers like us to sell better-quality produce and display it more attractively," says Jules Rose, chairman of Sloan's, a citywide grocery chain...
...interferon concede that it is a difficult substance to work with, far more complex than traditional anticancer drugs. Just getting the dosages right can be tricky, and they are different * with each disease. "More is not better with the interferons," says Mathilde Krim of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Giving too much can have the opposite of the desired effect...
...form seems to enhance the effects of another. Doctors are also excited about the possibility of using interferon together with another powerful, naturally occurring anticancer agent called tumor necrosis factor. "Interferon and TNF together add up to more than the sum of their parts," says Dr. Lloyd Old, of Sloan-Kettering, who discovered TNF 14 years ago. Interferon may work synergistically with certain cancer drugs and with radiation therapy...