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...then researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) couldn't get the same results and Folkman's methods were questioned in a Wall Street Journal article last November. Last week, Folkman's situation seemed to hit a new low as pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squib (BMS) announced they would no longer seek to produce the drugs Folkman developed...
...called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
Dallas lineman Randy White fumbled Roy Gerela's squib kickoff while trying to lateral and Dennis "Dirt" Winston recovered for Pittsburgh...
...stock market plummeted, the recently resuscitated pound slipped again and the Liberals began to mutter threats of ending their pact with the Labor Party unless Healey came up with some bigger tax cuts. Reflecting the general mood of Britons, Conservative M.P. William Clark scowled: "The budget is a damp squib...
Volcanically speaking, the eruption of Vesuvius on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, was a squib compared with the more recent explosions of Krakatoa or Mont Pelée. But no seismic event has ever had wider cultural repercussions. Buried under 12 ft. of deadly ash and scoriae, the city of Pompeii-a flourishing town on the Bay of Naples, filled with rich men's villas, tradesmen's houses and the workshops of the poor-was in the moment of its snuffing-out turned into the most complete social time capsule left by the Roman world. Since major excavations...