Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very confident," Wise says from his firm's small suite of offices in this affluent suburb. "1990 is going to be the inflection point for us, when this really takes...
...most poignant single tragedy befell the small (pop. about 1,200) community of East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller...
...procedure, reported last week at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, is based on analysis of the "first polar body," a small packet of chromosomes sloughed off from the human egg during cell division. First the researchers remove several eggs from a woman's ovaries. Next the first polar body is detached, and a new genetic test called ! polymerase chain reaction is employed to analyze the chromosomes, which are complementary to those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known...
...That is small consolation to Jordache, which spent more than $2 million on its legal defense. Said Chairman Joe Nakash: "Nothing can erase four years of humiliation and embarrassment caused by the greed and viciousness of others...
...company is particularly incensed because the Saturn, which will carry a sticker price of around $12,000, represents the biggest U.S. automotive gamble in years. Launched by Chairman Roger Smith in 1982, Saturn was designed to give GM a small car that would outsell imports from Japan. Said Smith in the mid-1980s: "We believe Saturn is the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...