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...dangerous, scientists fear that once inside the body, even a killed version could revive itself and prove deadly. Thus the MicroGeneSys product, called VaxSyn, and most other AIDS vaccines under development depend on using only parts of the virus in the hope that these bits and pieces will spark enough immune protection...
Facing a crowd of labor negotiators last week, Chung Ju Yung shouted the traditional Korean cheer for long life. Mansei! was an appropriate chant for the farm boy turned industrialist. He had just agreed to a settlement that would spark his $14 billion-a-year Hyundai Group back to life...
...takes less than usual to spark testiness in Texas these days, especially on the subject of the state's beleaguered savings and loan industry. Last week Governor Bill Clements got into a shooting match when he described the Government's system for regulating thrift institutions as an "absolute fraud." Concerned that U.S. funds are insufficient to protect deposits at Texas' 49 insolvent thrifts, Clements contended that the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation might be able to reimburse depositors in failed institutions to the tune of only 30 cents on the dollar, along with a Government IOU for the rest...
Independent labor organizers took advantage of the new atmosphere to spark a series of work stoppages that reached new peaks last week. Assembly lines ground to a halt at the electronics giants, Samsung and Lucky-Goldstar. Earlier, Hyundai Motor Co., producer of the popular subcompact Excel, lost $24 million after it failed to ship 6,000 cars. Though the government is leaving the search for solutions to labor and management, it began to move against the violence prone, arresting two workers for destroying an auto-parts factory and three fishermen for wrecking equipment in a Pusan market. Warned Labor Minister...
...October, a new Harvard medical education center will be dedicated. That ceremony will mark a new era in medical education here, which may spark changes in medical school curricula across the country...